From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Paris Subject: Re: timeout errors on sata_sil24 with port multiplier & PCI-X Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:13:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20070310031327.GA16482@jim.sh> References: <20070309221628.GA12330@jim.sh> <20070309233151.GD14319@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from NEUROSIS.MIT.EDU ([18.95.3.133]:50716 "EHLO neurosis.jim.sh" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752796AbXCJDOP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:14:15 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070309233151.GD14319@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Robin H. Johnson" Cc: htejun@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > > 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