From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Subject: Re: Scary Intel SATA errors.. Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:42:05 +0000 Message-ID: <20061201194205.4313c508@localhost.localdomain> References: <20061114150454.GA11900@havoc.gtf.org> <456DD08E.4050402@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:4750 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031754AbWLATfS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:35:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <456DD08E.4050402@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Tejun Heo , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:25:18 -0500 Mark Lord wrote: > Mmmm.. Tejun, here's a clue for what Linus saw on his system: > > Right now I'm implementing support for READ/WRITE LONG commands via libata. > > And the ata_piix driver gets into a non-recoverable state after successfully > doing a READ LONG command for me, a very similar state to what Linus reported. Looks like it may in fact be a chip erratum. Turn off PPE unconditionally and try and repeat it (if you look at ata_piix right now its turned off for ATAPI only). Alan