From: Frank Henkel <fhenkel@hpce.nec.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Instability
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:50:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504191650.11926.fhenkel@hpce.nec.com> (raw)
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Dear Jeff,
we have a stability problem under x86_64 Linux using the
sata_sil driver for the SiI 3512A dual port SATA onboard
controller (BIOS Version 4.3.47) of the MSI MS-9145 Dual
Opteron (So940) MoBo.
The proprietary drivers from SiI don't match our kernel
versions, so we rely on the sata_sil alternative.
What Linux distros I have tested:
Distro Kernel sata_sil Version
- -------------------------------------------------------
SuSE 9.3 x86_64 2.6.11.4-20a-smp 0.8
- -------------------------------------------------------
Scientific Linux CERN 3.0.4
2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.cernsmp
0.54
- -------------------------------------------------------
RHEL WS3 U4 2.4.X (server crashed before information
was saved)
- -------------------------------------------------------
The problem is, that I a lot of console messages like
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatus Error }
appear when data is written to disk. And, suddenly, I/O
errors are reported and the system hangs. In the case of
RHEL WS3 U4 I lost the complete installation, because
fsck couldn't catch up all errors in the FS.
Do you know problems with this specific SATA controller?
Do you have a solution (2.4 kernel)?
Can I help you with more information to enhance the driver?
Thank you.
Best regards,
Frank
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Frank Henkel
Application Analyst
NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH, EHPCTC
Hessbruehlstr. 21B, 70565 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel: +49 711 78055 14 fhenkel@hpce.nec.com
Fax: +49 711 78055 25 http://www.hpce.nec.com
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2005-04-19 14:50 Frank Henkel [this message]
2005-04-20 2:30 ` Instability Albert Lee
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