From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Promise SATA oops Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:29:01 -0500 Message-ID: <438FDB9D.2030201@pobox.com> References: <20051202045853.GD3677@vitelus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:8415 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbVLBF3K (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:29:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20051202045853.GD3677@vitelus.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Aaron Lehmann Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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