Hi, I'm building a system with 4 SATA ports based on Intel ICH7 and an additional 2 ports on a Silicon Image 3112. There are 6 Seagate drives, all model number ST3320620AS. Booting the system with a Knoppix 4 DVD (kernel version 2.6.12), I went to set up the md arrays and got a syslog full of this: ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x2 ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x1 ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x1 ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x2 as well as a painfully slow (~100K/sec) initial resync. Googling about seems to show some problems related to Silicon Image 311x and Seagate drives, so I removed the Sil3112 and investigated what happens with just the onboard ICH7 and 4 disks. Unfortunately I still get the same problems. Has anyone ever come across this problem before and know where it may lie, hardware or software? Cheers, Andy
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