From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA causing hard freeze on 2.6.6 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:18:24 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40A75C10.1030402@pobox.com> References: <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 parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:25811 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263589AbUEPMSi (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2004 08:18:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <40A75BF3.7040403@gentoo.org> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Drake Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Daniel Drake wrote: > 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? What is the behavior of libata? CONFIG_SCSI_SATA, CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL Jeff