From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:42:37 +0400 Message-ID: <46C1871D.2030006@wasp.net.au> References: <46C11BBE.6010802@wasp.net.au> <46C181FD.8040708@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wasp.net.au ([203.190.192.17]:39939 "EHLO wasp.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754423AbXHNKmr (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:42:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46C181FD.8040708@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > 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. > Hrm, I did try that a while back. I'll give that a bash again tonight. This is only happening on the Promise cards. The drives on the SIL and VIA controllers will work as hard as I care to work them and never fault. I'll try and do a GIT bisection this evening, If I go back to 2.6.16 I get no errors and the system works perfectly well. Same can be said for the failure to shut down actually. 2.6.16 worked flawlessly. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams