Re: sata_promise ata exceptions (2.6.20.6)

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:18:09PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> I've seen reports of issues like these with second-generation
> Promise SATA chips and SATAII (3Gbps) drives, but this is the
> first time I've seen any issues with a first-generation chip.
> 
> 1. Please try 2.6.21-rc6 plus the following two patches:
>    http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.6/patch-sata_promise-1-separate-sata-pata-ops-2.6.21-rc6
>    http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.6/patch-sata_promise-2-error_intr-2.6.21-rc6
> 
>    This probably won't eliminate the errors, but should improve
>    the level of detail in the error messages.

It doesn't appear to have changed much. After a reboot, I have:

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x380100 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: (port_status 0x20200000)
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:90:f2:fb:a6/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 73728 in
         res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata1: EH complete
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
DPO or FUA
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x380100 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: (port_status 0x20200000)
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:88:1a:f5:a6/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 69632 in
         res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata1: EH complete
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
DPO or FUA
ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100:PIO4
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x380100 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: (port_status 0x20200000)
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:7a:b8:a9/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 65536 in
         res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1: EH complete
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support
DPO or FUA


Any other info I can provide?

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