From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Harvell Subject: Re: Problems with Promise SATAII TX4 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:34:27 +0200 Message-ID: <424C5ED3.8010109@dogpad.net> References: <20050330001007.GA16954@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:24724 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261811AbVCaUei (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:34:38 -0500 Received: from zrtpd0jn.us.nortel.com (zrtpd0jn.us.nortel.com [47.140.202.35]) by zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com (Switch-2.2.6/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id j2VKYaH05400 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:34:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050330001007.GA16954@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 >: nobody cared!" error message, followed by a call/stack >trace. This is quickly followed up by a "Disabling IRQ #" >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 ) 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 > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >