Re: SATA hotplug from the user side ?

[Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:04 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I'd like to try out SATA hotplugging using a SIL3114. Though I was
> > harvesting the web, I could not find any useful information how this is
> > done in practice.
> > 
> > Well I realized that I can still use scsiadd to print and remove
> > devices, e.g.:
> 
> For SIL3114, you shouldn't have to run any commands at all.  It should 
> notice when you yank the cable, or plug in a new device.


It is true it detects a removal and newly plugged devices immediately...
However it still prints warnings and errors that it could not
synchronize SCSI cache for the disks. Then it prints regular 'rejects
I/O to dead device' warning messages and on replugging the disks puts
them to the next free sd device (e.g. sdc -> sdd).

These messages sound eval - so now the question is should I care ?
( On the other hand it did not crash the machine )

What follows is a change between to sata drives attached to port 4/5 of
the sil (ata5/ata6 here):

ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10000 action 0x2 frozen
ata6: hard resetting port
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata6: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10000 action 0x2 frozen
ata5: hard resetting port
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata5: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata6: hard resetting port
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata6: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata5: hard resetting port
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata5: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata6: hard resetting port
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata6.00: disabled
ata6: EH complete
ata6.00: detaching (SCSI 5:0:0:0)
Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdd: 
FAILED
  status = 0, message = 00, host = 4, driver = 00
  <6>ata5: hard resetting port
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata5.00: disabled
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: detaching (SCSI 4:0:0:0)
Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdc: 
FAILED
  status = 0, message = 00, host = 4, driver = 00
  <3>ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0x2 frozen
ata6: hard resetting port
ata6: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff)
ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata6.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 1465149168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata6: EH complete
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3750640AS      3.AA PQ: 0
ANSI: 5
SCSI device sdf: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdf: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back
 sdf: unknown partition table
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
scsi 4:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
scsi 4:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0x2 frozen
ata5: hard resetting port
ata5: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff)
ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata5.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 1465149168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata5: EH complete
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3750640AS      3.AA PQ: 0
ANSI: 5
SCSI device sdg: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdg: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back
 sdg: unknown partition table
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdg
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0

Best,
Soeren
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