Re: [RFT] major libata update

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Avuton Olrich wrote:
> On 5/15/06, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> * sata_sil and ata_piix also need healthy re-testing of all basic
>> functionality.
> 
> I'm testing it right now, but with 2.6.17-rc4-git2 I was getting:

Testing what?  sata_sil?  Please provide full dmesg, there's a lot of 
missing information.


> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 
> host_stat 0x1
> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x58/00 to
> SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter ata2: status=0x58 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest }
> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter sd 1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 
> 0x8000002
> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter sda: Current: sense key=0xb
> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter ASC=0x47 ASCQ=0x0
> May 15 15:42:57 shapeshifter end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 
> 974708575
> 
> (sector varies)
> 
> After large ssh transfers. I moved to 2.6.17-rc4-git2 because
> 2.6.16.16 was doing the same. This is a new 500gb sata2 drive on
> sata_sil so I guess this could be hardware, but I wanted to make sure
> before I go returning this thing. After this obviously I have to sysrq
> sync, ro and reboot. This also causes(?) a NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2:
> transmit timed out, sometimes this ata timeout doesn't yet occur and I
> just get the netdev watchdog. This has not yet happened with the new
> patch, though I'm only 1 hr into testing with it.

Yes, its entirely possible that the new patch will address this.  Please 
do keep us posted.

Thanks,

	Jeff