On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:55 AM, ANEZAKI, Akira <fireblade1230@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Gwendal, > > Thank you for your information. > I think ata8 might different from other 3 PMPs. I'll try to update all > firmware but it is running resync on broken RAID now. So I can't do it soon. > By the way, both of ata8 and ata9 loses some HDDs also. Are those > affected by PMPs on ata7 and ata10? Why 3.1.x driver can work? > > Best Regards, > Akira > >> Now I see your problem. Indeed on ata7, ata10, we have a problem. I should have said ata7-ata10. The PMP on these 4 enclosures do not like SRST at all. It works with 3.1.x because it does not send SRST with this PMP; but as I said before, that is not a good behavior [no staggered spin-up, problem with drives slow to spin-up] Gwendal. >> I notice however some messages I did not see before: >>>> [ 4.856382] ata7.15: Port Multiplier 1.1, 0x1095:0x3726 r23, 6 ports, feat 0x1/0x9 >>>> [ 4.858742] ata7.00: hard resetting link >>>> [ 14.843039] ata7.00: softreset failed (timeout) >>>> [ 17.836402] ata7.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe4) >> The later indicates that the PMP is stuck and the host can not read >> its internal register. >> Is it possible that the PMP in these 4 enclosures you are using have a >> different firmware than the other ones? >> Firmware 1.0114 is available at: >> http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=26&cat=23 >> >> From the release notes: >> """- Fix SRST and initial two RegFIS Problem.""" >> >> Gwendal. > -- 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