From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:20:45 +0900 Message-ID: <46C181FD.8040708@gmail.com> References: <46C11BBE.6010802@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:24245 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759949AbXHNKUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:20:52 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1399959rvb for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:20:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46C11BBE.6010802@wasp.net.au> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Campbell Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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