Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Patric Karlsson wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> It seems those 3Gbps promise controllers have hard time getting out of
>> transmission errors.  Is it because hardreset doesn't work?  Can we
>> fix it?
>>
>> Also, if 3Gbps can't be made reliable on those controllers, how about
>> limiting it to 1.5Gbps by default with appropriate warning messages?
>> Without PMP, it's not like we're gonna earn anything by driving the
>> thing at 3Gbps.
> 
> I thought this was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.24-RC2 ?

Ah.... good news.

> Although I'm currently running a TX4 myself in 3Gbit mode with 2.6.23.1,
>  I'm waiting for 2.6.24 to reach stable until I try it out myself.
> 2.6.23.1 seemed to fix the hard-lock when it tried to reset the card
> tho, so now I just get a few errors about "soft resetting" in the logs.
> No data loss.

That's great too.

I Stratford, can you please give 2.6.24-rc2 a shot?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun