sata_via issue

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

I have a pair of WD2000JB drives with SATA->IDE Converters sitting on the on-board interface of my 
ASUS A7V600 Motherboard
They are set up in an md raid-0 and shared across NFS as a remote root for another driveless box.

I have just lost the 2nd disk (the first went 2 weeks ago in similar circumstances and plugging this 
one into the ATA interface and querying the SMART figures kinda looked like this one was going to 
fail in a similar fashion). It's a RAID-0 so I plan ahead for data loss and rsync the important bits 
to a RAID-5 every night.

When the drive develops a read or write error, it does as the below log shows and then just freezes 
the interface. There are no timeouts (well I waited for 8 hours anyway) and no apparent error 
recovery. I can't read directly from the device with dd either, it just freezes solid.

I can't get much more than this now as the machine is remote and I need to get to it to reset the 
box before I can get at the boot log as it has been up for 1 day longer than my syslog rotation goes 
for.

I guess the bonus is I now have 2 200GB drives that fail in reproducible ways :p)
I know it's an old kernel, I have been waiting for a reboot to upgrade it to 2.6.8.1 (Now I have the 
chance I guess).

I guess what I'm asking is, is there a graceful error recovery method or will it continue to freeze 
solid? Is it a libata issue or drive issue?
When plugged into an ATA interface, the drive errors out on those sectors and continues to work 
"normally"

Regards,
Brad

brad@srv:~$ uname -a
Linux srv 2.6.5 #10 Thu Jun 10 09:36:54 GST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

brad@srv:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)
0000:00:0b.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 
10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 12)
0000:00:0e.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus 
Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 315PRO PCI/AGP VGA Display 
Adapter


Relevant dmesg snip

ata13: DMA timeout, stat 0x1
ATA: abnormal status 0xE0 on port 0x8807
scsi12: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x2a 00 0a b2 00 3f 00 00 08 00
Current sdk: sense = 70  3
ASC= c ASCQ= 2
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0c 0x02
end_request: I/O error, dev sdk, sector 179437631
ATA: abnormal status 0xE0 on port 0x8807
ATA: abnormal status 0xE0 on port 0x8807
ATA: abnormal status 0xE0 on port 0x8807

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