Hello, Tim Connors wrote: > I'm running a debian 2.6.26-9 kernel (sid) on a new laptop with: Hmmm... > 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) > Subsystem: Dell Device 0275 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ > Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0 > Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 378 > Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=8] > Region 1: I/O ports at 18d4 [size=4] > Region 2: I/O ports at 18d8 [size=8] > Region 3: I/O ports at 18d0 [size=4] > Region 4: I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32] > Region 5: Memory at f8504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] > Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/2 Enable+ > Address: fee0300c Data: 41a1 > Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA <?> > Kernel driver in use: ahci > Kernel modules: ahci > > Soon after booting, and possibly after the disk had spun down and was > asked to spin back up (which it had done successfully a few times so > far, with a spinddown timeout of 10 minutes, and using laptop_mode), it > had a sata error: > > Nov 4 01:49:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106289] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x3ff SErr 0x50000 action 0xe frozen > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106307] ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake } > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106319] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:00:bd:c9:57/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106322] res 40/00:00:02:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error) > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106329] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106339] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:08:35:7a:73/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 out > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106343] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error) > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106350] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106361] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:10:35:36:9b/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 4096 out > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106364] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error) > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106371] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106382] ata1.00: cmd 61/28:18:55:94:e2/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 20480 out > > And then it fails to reset after some time, remounting the devices > readonly (although what wasn't already in the cache became unreadable with > lots of IO errors rapidly filling up dmesg). None of the logs made it to > disk, naturally enough, and this was what I caught in syslog before syslog > bailed. There were interesting messages that happened after this, but the > dmesg buffer filled up before I thought about saving them. Well, the disk is already a goner at that point so you need to either set up a netconsole or plug in a usb stick, mount it and do "while true; do dmesg -c >> /mnt/usbstick/dmesg.out; sleep 1; done" to capture the kernel log. > My /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy is: > min_power > . powertop had earlier (in a previous warm-boot) prompted me > to set link_power_management_policy, so I had been tweaking that, but I > didn't look at its default setting - I presume it was already at > min_power, as it is now from a fresh (cold) bootup. > > Just in case it is related, in each bootup, I earlier get > Nov 4 01:20:26 gamow kernel: [ 116.217492] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec > Nov 4 01:20:28 gamow kernel: [ 118.073078] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec > Nov 4 01:20:30 gamow kernel: [ 120.467250] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. > Nov 4 01:20:30 gamow kernel: [ 120.603593] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec > Nov 4 01:20:31 gamow kernel: [ 121.004372] ACPI Exception (evregion-0420): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20080321] > Nov 4 01:20:31 gamow kernel: [ 121.004372] ACPI Error (psparse-0530): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node ffff81013fa6cb90), AE_TIME > Nov 4 01:20:31 gamow kernel: [ 121.004372] ACPI Exception (battery-0360): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST [20080321] > > and/or > > [ 1587.842640] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec > (successively increasing as time goes on) > > The sata link went belly up perhaps a few minutes after I went to bed > lastnight, and the only thing I can think of that I did before then was to > unplug and replug the ethernet and/or the wireless. The ACPI messages > seem to happen around networking events on this laptop, but I haven't had > a chance to investigate further. I really need to see how the recovery attempt failed. Can you please reproduce the problem and report the kernel log? Also, please report how reproducible the problem is. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html