Hello, I'm using IT8212F-based card with two Samsung HD400LD drives in cards' RAID1 mode. It works fine most of the time, but sometimes the machine stalls for a while with HDD LED on. The log contains errors like this then: (syslog) Nov 29 11:25:38 pentium kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov 29 11:25:38 pentium kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x26 Nov 29 11:25:38 pentium kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:ca:74:d0/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 out Nov 29 11:25:38 pentium kernel: res 51/00:01:01:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x21 (host bus error) Nov 29 11:25:38 pentium kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Nov 29 16:09:40 pentium kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x26 Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:c2:f5:a7/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 out Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: res 51/04:01:01:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x21 (host bus error) Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: error: { ABRT } (messages) Nov 29 11:25:39 pentium kernel: ata3.00: RAID1 volume. Nov 29 11:25:39 pentium kernel: ata3.00: configured for DMA Nov 29 11:25:39 pentium kernel: ata3: EH complete Nov 29 11:25:39 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422766 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) Nov 29 11:25:39 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Nov 29 11:25:39 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: RAID1 volume. Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: configured for DMA Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: ata3: EH complete Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422766 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Nov 29 16:09:41 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA or this: (syslog) Dec 3 21:30:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x26 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:fa:0f:68/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 out Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: res 51/10:01:01:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0xa1 (host bus error) Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: error: { IDNF } Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 23597050 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb2, logical block 1901390 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb2 Dec 3 21:30:49 pentium kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 3 21:30:49 pentium kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x26 Dec 3 21:30:49 pentium kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:aa:41:d0/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 out Dec 3 21:30:49 pentium kernel: res 51/04:01:01:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x21 (host bus error) Dec 3 21:30:49 pentium kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Dec 3 21:30:49 pentium kernel: ata3.00: error: { ABRT } Dec 3 21:40:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 3 21:40:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:18:c2:2f:1e/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 12288 out Dec 3 21:40:41 pentium kernel: res 40/00:01:01:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 3 21:40:41 pentium kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY } (messages) Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: RAID1 volume. Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: configured for DMA Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor] Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: 72 0b 14 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: 00 00 00 01 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x14 ASCQ=0x0 Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422766 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Dec 3 21:30:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Dec 3 21:30:50 pentium kernel: ata3.00: RAID1 volume. Dec 3 21:30:50 pentium kernel: ata3.00: configured for DMA Dec 3 21:30:50 pentium kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 3 21:30:50 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422766 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) Dec 3 21:30:50 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Dec 3 21:30:50 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Dec 3 21:40:41 pentium kernel: ata3: soft resetting link Dec 3 21:40:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: RAID1 volume. Dec 3 21:40:42 pentium kernel: ata3.00: configured for DMA Dec 3 21:40:42 pentium kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 3 21:40:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422766 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) Dec 3 21:40:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Dec 3 21:40:42 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA It even resulted in filesystem corruption once: (syslog) Dec 2 17:37:55 pentium kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:1a:f6:13/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 out Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY } Dec 2 17:39:32 pentium kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb2): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #945280: rec_len %% 4 != 0 - offset=12288, inode=862741792, rec_len=29535, name_len=116 (messages) Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: ata3: soft resetting link Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: ata3.00: RAID1 volume. Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: ata3.00: configured for DMA Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422766 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Dec 2 17:37:56 pentium kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Next day, fsck started on boot and found some errors. I wonder what might cause these errors? I switched the controller into non-RAID mode and read SMART - both drives are 100% OK (no pending or reallocated sectors, no errors logged). -- Ondrej Zary -- 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