Re: sata_promise ata exceptions (2.6.20.6)

[Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>]

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:33:55PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> The error decodes as:
> port_status 0x20200000: Drive Error during Packet Command Cycle
> (the drive signalled an error to the controller)
> 
> SErr 0x380100: CRC error, Disparity error, 10B-to-8B decoding error,
> non-recoverable transient data integrity error.
> 
> My conclusion is that the link between the controller and the drive
> is corrupting messages. This is almost certainly a hardware problem,
> and could be a broken motherboard (you wrote that you hadn't used
> the mobo's Promise chip before), bad cables, bad drives, a bad power
> supply, or electrical interference.

Mikael,

Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate your help. I guess I'm buying a
SATA PCI card!

Looks like my choice of reasonably-priced known-brands is Highpoint and
Promise (specifically a Highpoint ROCKETRAID1520 or a Promise SATA300 TX4) -
are one of these brands better from a Linux compatibility or hardware-bug
standpoint?

Thanks again.
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