Hello, I have encountered a big bug here with ICH9M hardware. Switching to a newer kernel, namely 2.6.37-20-desktop (opensuse 11.4 rc1), does not solve the problem. The same application ran perfectly with an ICH7 hardware. I have a serial GPS receiver connected to a USB port. As long as I do not use it, even if it stays connected, my disk works fine. But, as soon as I start to listen to this USB serial GPS receiver, I get errors for every disk access, until I reboot my computer :( >From the messages below, DMA transfers block (READ DMA as below, and I have seen WRITE DMA frozen also). The running running processes keep running, and the GPS listening process continues to get messages from the USB GPS receiver each second. Is that a known (an fixed) problem ? Here is a console log excerpt showing the messages appearing after I start listening to my GPS USB receiver, recorded using netconsole : ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50) ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:88:40:01/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: hard resetting link ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: hard resetting link ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata1: hard resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1.00: disabled ata1: hard resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1: EH complete sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 10.1.40.199 : Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: 10.1.40.199 : Read(10)10.1.40.199 : :10.1.40.199 : 2810.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0210.1.40.199 : 0110.1.40.199 : 4010.1.40.199 : 8810.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0810.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 33636488 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 10.1.40.199 : Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: 10.1.40.199 : Write(10)10.1.40.199 : :10.1.40.199 : 2a10.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 4110.1.40.199 : 6710.1.40.199 : d810.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0810.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4286424 quiet_error: 45 callbacks suppressed Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 9723 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 10.1.40.199 : Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: 10.1.40.199 : Write(10)10.1.40.199 : :10.1.40.199 : 2a10.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0110.1.40.199 : 8410.1.40.199 : 5e10.1.40.199 : 3010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0410.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 25452080 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 2655430 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 10.1.40.199 : Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: 10.1.40.199 : Write(10)10.1.40.199 : :10.1.40.199 : 2a10.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0110.1.40.199 : 8410.1.40.199 : 6210.1.40.199 : 3010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : c810.1.40.199 : 0010.1.40.199 : end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 25453104 JBD2: Detected IO errors while flushing file data on sda2-8 Aborting journal on device sda2-8. EXT4-fs (sda2): 10.1.40.199 : delayed block allocation failed for inode 793538 at logical offset 0 with max blocks 1 with error -3010.1.40.199 : EXT4-fs (sda2): 10.1.40.199 : This should not happen!! Data will be lost 10.1.40.199 : [ 150.577419] EXT4-fs error (device sda2) in ext4_da_writepages:3074: Journal has aborted and here are some hardware info's : tmp199:~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection 06:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) tmp199:~ # Ask for more info if needed. Thanks in advance Philippe -- Philippe De Muyter +32 2 6101532 Macq SA rue de l'Aeronef 2 B-1140 Bruxelles -- 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