Re: sata_promise: which version/patch to test?

[Peter Favrholdt <linux-ide@how.dk>]

Hi Tomi,

Thanks for the reply :-)

I don't know if this would be possible for you, but I think it would be 
interesting to see what would happen if you swapped the SATA cable on 
one of your problem drives with one which is ok. In my system (four 
identical drives) I have the feeling the problem is only on two of the 
ports (the exact ports changed when the port enumeration patch went into 
the kernel - it used to be sd[cd] and now it is sda and maybe sdb - 
haven't tested that much yet).

If you try this - and the problem moves with the drive, then it must be 
drive related and not the ports/driver.

Maybe we could collect some more information here:

http://sata300tx4.gratiswiki.dk

Best regards,

Peter

Tomi Orava wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> I have tried exchanging SATA cables, but still have the problem with
>> sata_promise using 2.6.21-git16.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have any solution for you but I wanted to let you
> know that you are not alone with this problem. I'm still running
> with 2.6.21-rc3-git10 based kernel with promise_sata_1.5Gps.patch
> and promise_enumeration.patch patches due to the fact that anything newer
> just doesn't work at all (the system drops interface speeds to almost zero
> due to  errors as reported previosly on this list). My current (old)
> kernel with patches still reports the following errors whenever there is
> more load on the system, but at least the promise sata300tx4 card &
> seagate 7200.10 disks do work (not well, but anyway):
> 
> ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata4.00: cmd 25/00:28:d7:be:99/00:00:17:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 20480 in
>          res 50/00:00:fe:be:99/00:00:46:9f:4a/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
> ata4: EH complete
> SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
> sdd: Write Protect is off
> sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sdd: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> 
> I still don't understand why on earth the above errors get logged only for
> the newer Seagate 7200.10 disks and never for the older 7200.7 disks.
> 
> 00:0e.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA
> 300 TX4) (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4)
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 16
>         I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
>         I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
>         Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
>         Expansion ROM at fe600000 [disabled] [size=32K]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> 
> Disks:
> 
> pdc_port_start(port 0): adjusted SControl from 0x00000000 to 0x00000011
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf880a380 ctl 0xf880a3b8 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 16
> pdc_port_start(port 1): adjusted SControl from 0x00000000 to 0x00000011
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf880a280 ctl 0xf880a2b8 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 16
> pdc_port_start(port 2): adjusted SControl from 0x00000000 to 0x00000011
> ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf880a200 ctl 0xf880a238 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 16
> pdc_port_start(port 3): adjusted SControl from 0x00000000 to 0x00000011
> ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf880a300 ctl 0xf880a338 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 16
> scsi0 : sata_promise
> Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> ata1.00: ATA-6: ST3200822AS, 3.01, max UDMA/133
> ata1.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 0: LBA48
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> scsi1 : sata_promise
> ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> ata2.00: ATA-6: ST3200822AS, 3.01, max UDMA/133
> ata2.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 0: LBA48
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
> scsi2 : sata_promise
> ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> ata3.00: ATA-7: ST3500630AS, 3.AAK, max UDMA/133
> ata3.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used)
> ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
> scsi3 : sata_promise
> ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> ata4.00: ATA-7: ST3500630AS, 3.AAK, max UDMA/133
> ata4.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used)
> ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3200822AS      3.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
>  sda: sda1 sda2
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3200822AS      3.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> SCSI device sdb: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> sdb: Write Protect is off
> sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
>  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
> scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500630AS      3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
> sdc: Write Protect is off
> sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sdc: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
> sdc: Write Protect is off
> sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sdc: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
>  sdc: sdc1 sdc2
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500630AS      3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
> sdd: Write Protect is off
> sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sdd: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
> SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
> sdd: Write Protect is off
> sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sdd: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
>  sdd: sdd1 sdd2
> sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdd
> sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Tomi Orava
> 
>> HW info:
>>
>> Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)
>> with 4 Seagate 500GB ES drives:
>>          Model Number:       ST3500630NS
>>          Firmware Revision:  3.AEE
>>          (with 1.5/3.0Gbps jumper removed = 3.0Gbps)
>>
>> After doing:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M &
>> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=1M &
>> dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=1M &
>> dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/null bs=1M &
>>
>> it runs fine for a while, then:
>>
>> [ 3171.247821] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x1380000
>> action 0x2 frozen
>> [ 3171.247835] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:00:3c:35/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0
>> cdb 0x0 data 131072 in
>> [ 3171.247837]          res 40/00:28:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
>> 0x4 (timeout)
>> [ 3171.559676] ata1: device not ready (errno=-19), forcing hardreset
>> [ 3171.559685] ata1: hard resetting port
>> [ 3172.035566] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-19)
>> [ 3172.035575] ata1: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 10 secs
>> [ 3181.555162] ata1: hard resetting port
>> [ 3182.031060] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-19)
>> [ 3182.031068] ata1: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 10 secs
>> [ 3191.550679] ata1: hard resetting port
>> [ 3192.026471] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-19)
>> [ 3192.026480] ata1: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 35 secs
>> [ 3226.534976] ata1: hard resetting port
>> [ 3227.010769] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-19)
>> [ 3227.010777] ata1: reset failed, giving up
>> [ 3227.010780] ata1.00: disabled
>> [ 3227.010792] ata1: EH complete
>> [ 3227.011088] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
>> [ 3227.011094] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 171260928
>> [ 3227.011099] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407616
>> [ 3227.011104] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407617
>> [ 3227.011108] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407618
>> [ 3227.011112] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407619
>> [ 3227.011115] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407620
>> [ 3227.011119] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407621
>> [ 3227.011122] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407622
>> [ 3227.011126] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407623
>> [ 3227.011130] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407624
>> [ 3227.011133] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 21407625
>> [ 3227.011161] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
>> [ 3227.011165] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 171261184
>> [ 3227.011297] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
>> [ 3227.011301] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 171260928
>> [ 3227.011327] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
>> [ 3227.011332] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 171260928
>> [4]   Exit 1                  dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M  (wd: ~)
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