Re: sata_via: write errors on SATA drive connected to VT6421

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:59:10AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Landry Breuil wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i encounter a very similar problem as reported in
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118764381013943&w=2, but with a SATA
>> disk. Trying to transfer 250Gb (mostly small files) from a SATA disk
>> (ata1/sda) to another (ata2/sdb), both plugged on the VT6421 card, after
>> some dozens of seconds the controler bails out and degrades write performance
>> (UDMA133->UDMA100->UDMA33...)
>>
>> kernel: ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO4
>> kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x12 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x1400500 action 0x2 frozen
>> kernel: ata2: SError: { UnrecovData Proto Handshk TrStaTrns }
>> kernel: ata2.00: cmd 35/00:00:07:c6:f4/00:04:07:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out
>> kernel:          res 40/00:b0:27:1d:dc/84:00:07:00:00/e0 Emask 0x16 (ATA bus error)
>
> Like Robert noted, this is the hardware complaining that it has found a  
> hardware error.
>
> "SErr" stands for SATA SError register value.  That is a value read  
> directly from hardware, which indicates one or more problems.  Here is  
> some more info:
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages#SATA_SError_expansion
>
> When libata sees a bunch of hardware problems, it tries the only things  
> it can do to attempt progress in that situation:  reset the hardware,  
> and slow down data transfer in an attempt to avoid errors again.

Okay, that makes sense. I swapped disks on the controller, and the
errors still pointed at the same disk. Will try with another disk..
the weird thing is that transferring files at a slow pace (from a
usb2 disk) shows no failure...

Thanks a lot for your explanations.

Landry
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