libata (sil + seagate)

["Ing. Hugo Mora" <h.mora@melix.com.mx>]

Hi Jeff,

Hope not being bothering you, I have a gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 mobo, and I'm still 
having problems, I tryied kernel 2.6.8.1 and i have this error:

Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 
0x1
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: ata1: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: EOM ILI Current sda: sense = 70 69
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: ASC=62 ASCQ=61
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 
164906075
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 
3713
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda6
Oct  5 01:15:04 linux kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE0804087

the weird thing, is that I tryied Knoppix 3.6 whit 2.4.27 and the it worked, 
mi chipset is sil3512 and discs are ST3120026AS     Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 
with firmware 3.56.

So, if you have some code that you want me to test it, feel free to send me, I 
can help you to test in ths machine (and hope there can be a patch to apply 
to a SuSE kernel to keep using that distro, a vanilla kernel doesen't work)

Thanks in advance and greetings from Guadalajara Jalisco, México.

boot.log of the libata
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<7>libata version 1.02 loaded.
<7>sata_sil version 0.54
<6>ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE0804080 ctl 0xE080408A bmdma 0xE0804000 irq 
11
<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08040C0 ctl 0xE08040CA bmdma 0xE0804008 irq 
11
<7>ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 
88:207f
<6>ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: lba48
<6>ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
<6>scsi0 : sata_sil
<7>ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 
88:207f
<6>ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: lba48
<6>ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
<6>scsi1 : sata_sil
<5>  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3120026AS       Rev: 3.56
<5>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
<5>SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
<5>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
<6> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
<5>Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
<5>  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3120026AS       Rev: 3.56
<5>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
<5>SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
<5>SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
<6> sdb: sdb1
<5>Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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Ing. Hugo Mora
Investigación y desarrollo
Mélix - Especialistas en Software Libre, 45160 Zapopan, México
tel. +52-33-3833 3289   fax +52-33-3636 0925   http://melix.com.mx