Re: Promise SATA oops

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I'm running 2.6.14.2 on an x86_64 (Athlon X2, i.e. SMP) with a Promise
> TX4 SATAII 150 controller. The night I set up the machine, I got a
> Promise-related oops (null pointer dereference IIRC), but was foolish
> enough not to write it down.  Since then, the machine has been
> unstable, and I've suspected the same thing is recurring, but since I
> use X it's very difficult to actually get at the oops. I ended up
> setting up a ramdisk with a static busybox that I could use to poke
> around if anything interesting happened. Just now everything using the
> filesystem went into D-state, so I checked dmesg and saw uncorrectable
> errors being reported on /dev/sdd. The system froze completely within
> a minute. When I rebooted, I got the oops at the end of this message.
> I was only able to copy the portion that fit on the screen. A second
> reboot was sucessful. My RAID5 arrays are resyncing now, and I expect
> that to complete normally because I've had to go through a lot of
> resyncs since I set this system up and they were all sucessful. Once
> that's done, I guess I'll run badblocks on sdd and see if anything
> turns up. It would be a shame if that drive is bad, considering that
> my 4 hard drives are brand new ones to replace a failed array I had
> lots of problems with.

This should be fixed in 2.6.15-rcX...

	Jeff