From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Sata Sil3512 bug? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:29:48 +0900 Message-ID: <4716D32C.5090408@gmail.com> References: <1097480701.20070927155135@zonnet.nl> <46FCF2A1.30204@gmail.com> <1619914792.20070928172536@zonnet.nl> <20070928165150.2a93524e@the-village.bc.nu> <46FD3213.6050204@gmail.com> <1128907118.20071002212023@zonnet.nl> <47044176.80803@gmail.com> <193014791.20071013183617@zonnet.nl> 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 ([209.85.198.191]:6335 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761222AbXJRD35 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:29:57 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so36538rvb for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:29:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <193014791.20071013183617@zonnet.nl> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: MisterE Cc: Alan Cox , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org MisterE wrote: > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0 > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: (BMDMA2 stat 0x650001) > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: cmd ca/00:f8:47:e1:5e/00:00:00:00:00/e4 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 out > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: res 51/04:98:a7:e1:5e/00:00:00:00:00/e4 Emask 0x1 (device error) > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: ata4: EH complete > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > Oct 13 13:01:26 fileserver kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > > I'm not sure if it will result in corrupt data? But i don't trust it > anymore. That looks like a data transmission error. When you're transferring massive amount of data, things like that can happen and it won't cause data corruption. > You people advise me to not buy the Promise SATA300 TX4 controller and > this Sweex PU102 (3512) seems to have problems. Not much choices left > except the really expensive solutions. > > Is it really so hard to build a controller without problems?!? :( It seems so. :-( -- tejun