From: "Lars Michael Jogbäck" <lm@jogback.se>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems w/ Sil3124 + Port Multiplier
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:30:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4638928E.60700@jogback.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46388862.1020709@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Lars Michael Jogbäck wrote:
>
>> I have a system with a Sil3124 controller and two Sil3726 port multipliers.
>> I'm running 2.6.18.1 with the patches from
>> http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable
>> since I was not able to get the port multipler to work at all with
>> 2.6.21 (perhaps the support for PMP is not fully integrated there).
>>
>> One of my Sil3726 is freezing my system approx one time per hour when
>> the disks are under load.
>>
>> ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>> ata5.00: tag 0 cmd 0xea Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout)
>>
>
> Hmmm... that's FLUSH_CACHE timing out.
>
Is there a way that I can generate a FLUSH_CACHE event manually somehow?
>
>> I suspect that the root-cause of the problem could be drive-related. All
>> the disks on the other Sil3726 are WD4000KD's and the
>> disks attached to this one is 3xWD4000KD and 1xWD4000KS and 1xSamsung
>> HD501LJ. Is there a way of test this?
>>
>
> I think the disk attached to port 0 might be bad. Please report the
> result of 'smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX' where sdX is the device attached
> to the failing port.
>
>
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD501LJ
Serial Number: S0VVJ1NP300009
Firmware Version: CR100-10
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x52
Local Time is: Wed May 2 15:26:35 2007 CEST
==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for
details.
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection:
Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine
completed
without error or no self-test
has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (8887) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection
on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 152) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail
Always - 2
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 015 Pre-fail
Always - 7232
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 3
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 010 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 253 253 051 Pre-fail
Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 253 253 015 Pre-fail
Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age
Always - 49
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 253 253 051 Pre-fail
Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 253 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 3
187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 070 069 000 Old_age
Always - 30
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 148 145 000 Old_age
Always - 30
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 385707184
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 253 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 253 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 21
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00%
49 -
SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data
structure revision number = 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
>> Is there an updated patch-set for port multipliers in a later kernel
>> than 2.6.18.1?
>>
>
> Sorry but not yet.
>
>
Regards,
/LM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 6:00 Problems w/ Sil3124 + Port Multiplier Lars Michael Jogbäck
2007-05-02 12:47 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-02 13:30 ` Lars Michael Jogbäck [this message]
2007-05-02 13:34 ` Mark Lord
2007-05-03 9:08 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-03 11:04 ` Lars Michael Jogbäck
2007-05-03 11:37 ` Tejun Heo
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