From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:20:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C181FD.8040708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C11BBE.6010802@wasp.net.au>
Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have
> posted about it before.
> The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB
> WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded.
> I've jumpered the WD's to 1.5GB PHY speed (I had to do that or the
> on-board via sata controller would not recognise one of the drives.
> The box is a bit of a mish-mash of controllers. I have 3 Promise
> SATA150TX4, one SIL3112 (all on PCI cards) and the on-board 2 port VIA
> driver.
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do really, short of replacing the
> Promise cards with something else.
ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a
separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up
[1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether
errors persist on those drives.
--
tejun
[1] http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-14 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-14 3:04 Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels Brad Campbell
2007-08-14 4:37 ` Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too Brad Campbell
2007-08-14 16:42 ` Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED Brad Campbell
2007-08-15 7:50 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-15 16:18 ` Brad Campbell
2007-08-16 5:43 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-16 7:54 ` Brad Campbell
2007-08-16 11:10 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-16 11:22 ` Brad Campbell
2007-08-14 10:20 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-08-14 10:42 ` Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels Brad Campbell
2007-08-14 13:52 ` Brad Campbell
2007-08-15 7:54 ` Tejun Heo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-15 15:39 Mikael Pettersson
2007-08-15 16:36 ` Brad Campbell
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