From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Riedel Subject: Re: Errors and resets using sata_promise and libata 1.20 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20060715065001.GA11832@localnet> References: <1152725383.23607.5637.camel@girvin.pmc-sierra.bc.ca> <44B7D4E4.4000607@rtr.ca> Reply-To: sr@gimp.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.kamp-dsl.de ([195.62.99.42]:2450 "HELO mailout.kamp-dsl.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422816AbWGOGuF (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:50:05 -0400 Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by sponts.dsl-backup.kamp.de (SPONTS v6.3.6) with SMTP id 110C70F2EBCA-0 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:50:03 +0000 Received: from mx01.kamp-dsl.de (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by sponts.dsl-backup.kamp.de (SPONTS v6.3.6) with ESMTP id 110C70F2EB2D-0 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:50:03 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B7D4E4.4000607@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Erik Frederiksen , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:31:16PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > >sdb: Current: sense key=0x0 > > ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 > > [...] > Then the LLD in some cases resets the channel to clear the controller > state machine, but this also clears the ERR bit, giving status 0x50 > (I believe there to be other paths to the same result as well, but have > not yet had time to investigate further). > > Then later in handling of the same failed command, the libata-scsi layer > finally has to report the error upstream, but by now it only sees 0x50 > and has no idea what went wrong. Is there a patch somewhere that didn't make it into the kernel yet, that we can try? Regs, Sven -- Sven Riedel sr@gimp.org