Peter Favrholdt wrote:
> Hi Tejun,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Does unloading and reloading sata_promise fix the problem?
>
> I had sata_promise linked into the kernel so I had to recompile and
> reboot. The reboot fixed it (didn't turn power off - just reboot).
>
> I then tried with sata_promise as a module. Four dd's reading the drives
> and shortly same problem:
>
> [ 700.520101] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x1380000
> action 0x6 frozen
> [ 700.520112] ata1: SError: { 10B8B Dispar BadCRC TrStaTrns }
> [ 700.520120] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:90:0e:e6/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0
> dma 131072 in
> [ 700.520122] res 40/00:28:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask
> 0x4 (timeout)
> [ 700.520126] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> [ 700.520169] ata1: hard resetting link
> [ 705.910331] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
> [ 710.531474] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
> [ 710.531531] ata1: hard resetting link
> [ 715.920526] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
>
> I tried removing sata_promise the nice way using modprobe:
>
> # modprobe -r -f sata_promise
> FATAL: Module sata_promise is in use.
>
> then the not-so-nice way using rmmod -f and inserting it again. It
> doesn't work. Here are the relevant parts from dmesg (removing and
> inserting):
Oh... you first need to wait for the kernel to be done with the devices.
ie. unmount all filesystems living on those && wait till EH finishes.
--
tejun
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