From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Problems with SiL3114 and WDC WD2500SD-01K Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:44:59 +0900 Message-ID: <4307CE8B.1030403@gmail.com> References: <1124581007.5764.10.camel@rambo.fortresscode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]:64538 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbVHUApQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:45:16 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i20so794223wra for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:45:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1124581007.5764.10.camel@rambo.fortresscode.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Larry Battraw Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Hello, Larry. Larry Battraw wrote: > I installed a SiL3114-based PCI card (Syba) and Western Digital > WD2500SD in my system recently and haven't been able to get the system > to write/read any data from the drive beyond the initial drive probe. I > get a lot of messages about "ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port > 0xF081C0C7" and SCSI parity errors. This seems to be a problem that > affected people quite a while ago, and I'm not sure why it's appearing > with a recent kernel (2.6.12.5). I've attached the output from dmesg. > Any ideas on what's happening? Are you positive that it's not a hardware problem? Can you please try the followings? * another port * another cable * try to use them in Windows :-( It seems that there are considerable number of crappy cables and controllers out in the wild these days, and, combined with currently not-so-robust error recovery of libata, they tend to result in unusable state. -- tejun