Hi, I'm using an external eSATA / USB / Firewire 2x1T RAID from WD in RAID1 configuration for backups with ext4 under 2.6.28.7. I've got a couple of problems with it before, and today a backup aborted with error messages below. Actually, those errors come from two backup attempts: the first one over NFS, and the second one locally. The system is one year old with an Intel chipset: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29b0 (rev 02) with a Core-2D 2.66GHz, so, it does have 3Gbps SATA, and below the driver drops down to 1.5Gbps. The problems I had before with the disk were, that it has a badly built eSATA connector, the connector doesn't sit firmly enough in it. So, the main question, I guess - cann errors below be caused by that? I think, I'll have to contact WD for an update, or use Firewire for now... Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer ata4.00: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80800 action 0x6 frozen ata4: SError: { HostInt 10B8B } ata4.00: cmd 35/00:f8:27:87:4a/00:03:09:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 520192 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout) ata4.00: status: { DRDY } ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x9 t4 ata4: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache EXT4-fs: mballoc: 517405 blocks 709 reqs (308 success) EXT4-fs: mballoc: 656 extents scanned, 582 goal hits, 77 2^N hits, 0 breaks, 0 lost EXT4-fs: mballoc: 99 generated and it took 850048 EXT4-fs: mballoc: 443177 preallocated, 441245 discarded NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory NFSD: starting 90-second grace period [here starts the local backup almost an hour later] EXT4-fs: barriers enabled kjournald2 starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT4 FS on sdb1, internal journal on sdb1:8 EXT4-fs: delayed allocation enabled EXT4-fs: file extents enabled EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled EXT4-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ata4.00: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80800 action 0x6 frozen ata4: SError: { HostInt 10B8B } ata4.00: cmd 35/00:00:4f:98:44/00:04:31:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout) ata4.00: status: { DRDY } ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x9 t4 ata4: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata4.00: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80800 action 0x6 frozen ata4: SError: { HostInt 10B8B } ata4.00: cmd 35/00:00:87:51:47/00:04:31:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout) ata4.00: status: { DRDY } ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata4.00: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80800 action 0x6 frozen ata4: SError: { HostInt 10B8B } ata4.00: cmd 35/00:00:af:ad:05/00:04:09:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout) ata4.00: status: { DRDY } ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata4.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x280900 action 0x6 frozen ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error ata4: SError: { UnrecovData HostInt 10B8B BadCRC } ata4.00: cmd c8/00:08:57:97:08/00:00:00:00:00/e9 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 50/00:00:36:06:34/00:00:01:00:00/41 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error) ata4.00: status: { DRDY } ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata4.00: disabled ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x9 t4 ata4: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed ata4: hard resetting link ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: ATA-6: WD My Book 1105, 1010, max UDMA/133 ata4.00: 1953508784 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 01 34 06 36 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: No additional sense information end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 151557975 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2099128 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2099129 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2099130 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2099131 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2099132 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2101059 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2101205 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2104385 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2104386 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2104398 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [last message repeated multiple times] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_find_entry: reading directory #4741319 offset 0 sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device ext4: I/O error while writing superblock for sdb1. sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [repeated again] sd 3:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device ata4.00: detaching (SCSI 3:0:0:0) Aborting journal on device sdb1:8. JBD2: I/O error detected when updating journal superblock for sdb1:8. journal commit I/O error EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_find_entry: reading directory #2 offset 0 ext4: I/O error while writing superblock for sdb1. sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WD My Book 1010 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953508784 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html