From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-ide@how.dk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:37:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DD89AE.7020802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709030811.l838BC9a026315@harpo.it.uu.se>
On 09/03/2007 04:11 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:04:08 +0200, Peter Favrholdt wrote:
>> Hi Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>>> I'm easily able to reproduce this problem on my sata_promise test rig.
>>> Using 2.6.23-rc5 to dd read a single Seagate disk on a SATA300 TX4 card
>>> quickly fails as Peter described.
>>>
>>> Applying the 1.5Gbps patch to the driver appears to make things stable.
>>>
>>> Those SATAII chips really don't seem to like 3Gbps mode. Or else we're
>>> missing some critical documentation on how to make them work.
>> The funny thing is: I have the exact same adapter and disks in a Dell
>> PE1800 server. This doesn't show any errors.
>>
>> Only difference is the card is in a PCI-X slot and the server is running
>> Linux 2.6.19.5.
>
> I assume the PE1800 has some Intel chipset? Which one?
> And the machine that does have problems, what chipset does it have?
>
> I'm actually beginning to think there's some PCI compatibility breakage
> somewhere, as I too see sata_promise working fine in some machines but
> not in others. Alas, my knowledge of PCI tweakables is close to nil.
I am seeing some problems solved by using pci=nomsi and/or pci=nommconf.
We either have a bug in MSI, especially on x86_64, or some chipsets just
don't work very well with it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-04 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-03 8:11 sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-03 11:59 ` Tomi Orava
2007-09-03 20:38 ` Peter Favrholdt
2007-09-04 8:14 ` Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-04 17:20 ` Peter Favrholdt
2007-09-04 18:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-04 16:37 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-02 17:02 Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-02 23:04 ` Peter Favrholdt
2007-09-02 15:11 Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-02 11:12 Peter Favrholdt
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