Re: Problems with Promise SATAII TX4

[Joe Harvell <jharvell@dogpad.net>]

Earlier this month I repeatedly reported a data corruption issue (with
no trap) with the sata_promise support for this card, but got no
response whatsoever from the driver author.

I was able to work around this problem only by using Promise's driver,
but I had to revert from the 2.6 to 2.4 kernel.

Kim Roland Rasmussen wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Together with a couple of others I have been bitten by problems with the
>Promise SATAII TX4 controller.
>
>Common to all is that at some point the kernel log contains the "irq
><SOME NUMBER>: nobody cared!" error message, followed by a call/stack
>trace. This is quickly followed up by a "Disabling IRQ #<SOME NUMBER>"
>which effectively kills the SATA controller and access to the disks.
>
>Although a somewhat unusual request, could I ask somebody to look at
>this
>
>    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2247734.html
>
>developing thread in the Gentoo Forums. There's simply to much
>information there to repost here.
>
>In my case (posted under <rasmussen>) I temporarily seem to have gotten
>around it by replacing a driver with another of a different brand.
>However, this is not the case for others.
>
>Any idea of what's going on? To me it looks like some interrupt isn't
>cleared or something like that (but I'm just guessing).
>
>Cheers,
>  Kim
>
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