Re: Broken sata (VIA) on Asus A8V (kernel 2.6.14+)

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Vladimir B. Savkin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:08:07AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>>Vladimir B. Savkin wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>My system based on Asus A8V (VIA chipset) works fine with 2.6.13.3,
>>>but after upgrading (kernels 2.6.14.7 and 2.6.15.1 tried) it
>>>gaves error messages some minutes after boot.
>>>
>>>The messages are as following:
>>> ata2: command 0xXX timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
>>>where XX gets different values from time to time, 0x25 mostly.
>>>I/O to this controller halts after that.
>>>
>>>Attached are boot dmesg log and lspci output.
>>>
>>
>>How reproducible is the problem?  With how much certainty can you say 
>>the problem is introduced by newer kernels?  e.g. If the problem occurs 
>>most of the time with 2.5.15.1 but it stops happending after switching 
>>back to 2.6.13.3, you can be pretty sure.
> 
> 
> Highly reproducible: months vs. minutes of uptime.
> 
> 

Your BMDMA controller is reporting raised interrupt (0x4) and your drive 
is saying that it's ready for the next command, yet interrupt handler of 
sata_via hasn't run and thus the timeout.  It looks like some kind of 
IRQ routing problem to me although I have no idea how the problem 
doesn't affect the boot process.

Can you try to boot with boot parameter pci=noacpi?

-- 
tejun