From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Drake Subject: SATA causing hard freeze on 2.6.6 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:17:55 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40A75BF3.7040403@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cpc5-hitc2-5-0-cust152.lutn.cable.ntl.com ([82.0.115.152]:14568 "EHLO zog.reactivated.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263555AbUEPLIF (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 07:08:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (dsd [192.168.0.2]) by zog.reactivated.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8C72A8535 for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 12:13:58 +0100 (BST) List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, Since an IDE-->SATA converter was included with my motherboard, I decided to start playing with SATA. The converter unit plugs into the IDE port of a hard disk, and you can then connect a SATA lead from that to a SATA port on the motherboard. The hard disk I am using is a Seagate ST380011A. The motherboard is an Abit NF7-S 2.0 (nforce2), which has the following SATA controller: 0000:01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) Silicon Image Serial ATARaid Controller [ CMD/Sil 3112/3112A ] (rev 02) Under 2.6.6, the entire system freezes under disk activity. It starts booting ok, but then freezes, usually when loading modules. Booting with "init=/bin/bash" allows me to get to a console, but soon after I start using the disk, the entire system freezes. I also tried 2.6.6-mm2 with the same problems. Plugging back into IDE, and booting the same kernel works with no problems. FWIW, my SATA experiences aren't much better with other kernels. When booting 2.4.25 from a CD, I can mount my SATA disk but I get lots of messages, such as: hde: sata_error = 0x00000000, watchdog = 0, siimage_mmio_ide_dma_test_irq ide2(33,7):Removing [4428992 4467719 0x0 SD]..<4>hde: sata_error = 0x00000000, watchdog = 0, siimage_mmio_ide_dma_test_irq done ide2(33,7):There were 1 uncompleted unlinks/truncates. Completed hde: sata_error = 0x00000000, watchdog = 0, siimage_mmio_ide_dma_test_irq hde: sata_error = 0x00000000, watchdog = 0, siimage_mmio_ide_dma_test_irq Booting 2.6.5 from a cd and mounting the drive gives the same errors. However, in both cases, reading and writing appears to be working (but I unmounted quickly both times incase the errors might be damaging the disk..) Anything I could try? Daniel