From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Favrholdt Subject: Re: sata_promise SATA300TX4 "intermittent problems" Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:27:24 +0100 Message-ID: <45F0FE4C.7060901@how.dk> References: <45EECD12.1000506@how.dk> <17903.7366.875191.751728@alkaid.it.uu.se> <45F0393D.80301@how.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:53950 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993000AbXCIG1f (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 01:27:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45F0393D.80301@how.dk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi again, Peter Favrholdt wrote: > My feeling is this is not caused by 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps operation. > <...snip> > My next test will be a plain 2.6.21rc2. Then I'll apply the patches one > by one. I've tested 2.6.21-rc2 which fails (sdc down after 27 minutes & sdd down after 46 minutes). Then I applied just a single patch to 2.6.21-rc2: Mikael Petterssons patch to force 1.5Gbps operation and tested again - this time no problems at all! (BTW: both kernels are running with IO-APIC disabled). I've put results+dmesg output here: http://sata300tx4.gratiswiki.dk/ Best regards, Peter