From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Dibowitz Subject: Re: sata_promise ata exceptions (2.6.20.6) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:55:31 -0700 Message-ID: <46231DE3.8070404@ipom.com> References: <200704091018.l39AI9tg020015@harpo.it.uu.se> <38769.194.237.142.7.1176209348.squirrel@ncircle.nullnet.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9E8F37724C26A3A1C399C372" Return-path: Received: from mail.ipom.com ([209.40.128.125]:49334 "EHLO uberhacker.sage-inc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754009AbXDPGzf (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:55:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <38769.194.237.142.7.1176209348.squirrel@ncircle.nullnet.fi> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tomi Orava Cc: Mikael Pettersson , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9E8F37724C26A3A1C399C372 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Given that the last one was a hardware issue, I bought a new controller. Despite my bad luck, given my price-range promise still seemed to be the = one with the most good reports, so I went with that. I was going to go with a= sil, but I couldn't find one.. Anyway, things are MUCH better now... but about once a week, I get: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: (port_status 0x00001000) ata2.00: cmd c8/00:80:9a:71:d0/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 65536= in res 40/00:00:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x24 (host bus err= or) ata2: soft resetting port ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't suppo= rt DPO or FUA It's the same port_status and Emask/SAct/SErr/action each time... only th= e cmd/res and data change (obviously those would change)... Can anyone tell me what that means? --=20 Phil Dibowitz phil@ipom.com Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming --------------enig9E8F37724C26A3A1C399C372 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGIx3jN5XoxaHnMrsRAvUFAJ4hmutqc/7HmKidlhijUqCNkuvYQACgoPhF B0QHSSD9n7xqeSDMmdOimys= =mxyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9E8F37724C26A3A1C399C372--