From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Larry Battraw <lbattraw@insightbb.com>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with SiL3114 and WDC WD2500SD-01K
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:44:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4307CE8B.1030403@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124581007.5764.10.camel@rambo.fortresscode.com>
Hello, Larry.
Larry Battraw wrote:
> I installed a SiL3114-based PCI card (Syba) and Western Digital
> WD2500SD in my system recently and haven't been able to get the system
> to write/read any data from the drive beyond the initial drive probe. I
> get a lot of messages about "ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port
> 0xF081C0C7" and SCSI parity errors. This seems to be a problem that
> affected people quite a while ago, and I'm not sure why it's appearing
> with a recent kernel (2.6.12.5). I've attached the output from dmesg.
> Any ideas on what's happening?
Are you positive that it's not a hardware problem? Can you please try
the followings?
* another port
* another cable
* try to use them in Windows :-(
It seems that there are considerable number of crappy cables and
controllers out in the wild these days, and, combined with currently
not-so-robust error recovery of libata, they tend to result in unusable
state.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-21 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-20 23:36 Problems with SiL3114 and WDC WD2500SD-01K Larry Battraw
2005-08-21 0:44 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2005-08-22 2:40 ` Larry Battraw
2005-08-22 2:53 ` Tejun Heo
2005-08-23 2:29 ` Larry Battraw
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