Re: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to ... PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) related cold freezes

Re: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to ... PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) related cold freezes

[Tejun Heo]

[cc'ing Jeff & linux-ide, quoting whole body]

Jeff, here's a EH test case for sata_promise, just in case you missed 
this thread.

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 18:37 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I just upgraded to using 2 sata disks (both seagate drives
>>>> ST3400832AS and ST3750640AS) on this asus a7v8x on-board promise 
>>>> fastrak
>>>> 376 (PDC20376) controller. However, as soon as I do a lot of io (cp 
>>>> some
>>>> G of files) I get swamped in
>>>> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
>>>> ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>>> ata1: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError }
>>>> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
>>>> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>>> ata2: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError }
>>>> ...
>>> Is the system usable after these messages?
>>
>> Yes, however I got cold freezes from (time to time) after a while...
> 
> I see.  your drive is reporting error for some reason and libata is 
> failing to recover.
> 
>>>> messages. For that it is enough to do it on a single drive or copy from
>>>> drive to drive. This is on kernel 2.6.17.4, but I remember (when I was
>>>> still using a single drive) this very same output to happen on 2.6.15.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone translate these dubious error messages to me ?
>>>>
>>>> Here are more details about the system:
>>>>
>>>> - the sata_promise driver version 1.04 is used
>>> Can you give a shot at 2.6.18-rc4?
>>
>> I will, though I don't see much changes in that driver...
> 
> Ah.. right.  sata_promise isn't converted to new EH yet.  There's no 
> reason to try -rc4.  Please stand by.
> 
> Thanks.

-- 
tejun