Re: timeout errors on sata_sil24 with port multiplier & PCI-X

[Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>]

> > If not I think my next course of action will be to try swapping the
> > controller to a PCIe SiI3132, then maybe give Robin H. Johnson's
> > 2.6.20 port of the PMP patches a try.
> 
> Here's paste of the equivalent stuff on my patches. Notice that it takes 49
> seconds to bring the disk array up :-(.
>
> Feb 28 20:30:52 [kernel] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x42 frozen
> Feb 28 20:30:52 [kernel] ata1: (irq_stat 0x00b00090, PHY RDY changed)

>From the "PHY RDY changed" I assume that's when you're bringing it up
for the first time?  Mine also takes a while, but that doesn't bother
me -- my problem is frequent random timeouts that cause the same sorts
of delays during normal use.

> Also, afaik there has been no resolution of the performance issue - while the
> controller shows 3Gb, the actual combined speeds I get are only at the 1.5Gb
> level.

1.5Gb without the timeouts/hard resets would be fine with me :)

-jim