From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Kasimir_M=FCller?= Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: libata , Silicon Image 3124] Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:55:03 +0100 Message-ID: <4780B387.1050600@kasimir-mueller.de> References: <473A5B03.2020808@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010506030301080605080002" Return-path: Received: from cg-p07-fb.rzone.de ([81.169.146.215]:60000 "EHLO cg-p07-fb.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751480AbYAFKzs (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 05:55:48 -0500 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mrclete-mo-p00-ob.mail [192.168.63.64]) by charnel-fb-03.store (RZmta 14.0) with ESMTP id i001f8k068CvGt for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:55:46 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from: ) In-Reply-To: <473A5B03.2020808@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo , IDE/ATA development list , christian.kuehn@hamburg.de This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010506030301080605080002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Tejun, Old communication appended below. I wish you a Happy Xmas and a successful New Year. I spent some time during Christmas to further investigate the problem. I bought a new 500GB disk and put all data on this disk. This is also contineously watched by nagios and cacti Then 1.) All 5 disks in the external case connected via Portmapper and sil24 card have excellent health-status with smartd. 2.) I get no(!!!!) errors at all if I use the disks as single drives or with lvm. I verified this by copying large amounts of data (100-200GB) with rsync , cp-av and running bonnie++ single and simultaneously to various combinations of drives. 3.) I get the errors as soon as I use raid. Same errors with raid0 (2 disks), 1 (2 disks), 5 (3 disks) in any combination of the drives 4.) The errors appear usually first during mkfs (same with ext3 and reiserfs) and than after writing about 10-50 GB to the raid, and repeat then at 5 to 10 minute intervals according the disk activity. 5.) I used Kernel 2.6.23.1 with Your latest patch: same result 6.) I used kernel 2.6.24 patch rc-6 : same result 7.) during the tests I marked all files with md5-sums: No data corruption (!!!), so maybe I can live with it. linux:/var/log # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 12457604 XT-PIC-XT timer 1: 8 XT-PIC-XT i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 4: 186738 XT-PIC-XT serial 5: 13328470 XT-PIC-XT sata_via, ehci_hcd:usb5, VIA8237, fcpci, eth0 6: 5 XT-PIC-XT floppy 8: 0 XT-PIC-XT rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC-XT acpi 10: 8019753 XT-PIC-XT sata_sil24 11: 114 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2 14: 468588 XT-PIC-XT libata 15: 0 XT-PIC-XT libata, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4 NMI: 0 LOC: 12457724 ERR: 1 complete log of kernel errors from today appended as gz: In the opensuse mailing-list some people reported related errors. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-de/2007-12/msg00939.html Can You make someting out of this ? Do You need any more information (please detail, because I am not a linux-guru) Yours sincerely Kasimir Mueller > kjm@kasimir.mueller.de didn't work. Forwarding to the original address. > it is kjm@kasimir-mueller.de > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Betreff: > Re: libata , Silicon Image 3124 > Von: > Tejun Heo > Datum: > Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:10:57 +0900 > An: > Kasimir Mueller > > An: > Kasimir Mueller > CC: > IDE/ATA development list > > Return-Path: > > X-Original-To: > htejun@gmail.com > Delivered-To: > tj@htj.dyndns.org > Received: > from [127.0.0.2] (htj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.2]) by htj.dyndns.org > (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E1813A81CF; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:10:57 +0900 > (KST) > Nachricht-ID: > <473A5931.4040704@gmail.com> > User-Agent: > Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) > MIME-Version: > 1.0 > Referenzen: > <4738A231.5010700@kasimir-mueller.de> <4738FC4C.7050103@gmail.com> > <473A11B4.5030409@kasimir.mueller.de> > In-Reply-To: > <473A11B4.5030409@kasimir.mueller.de> > X-Enigmail-Version: > 0.95.3 > Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: > 8bit > > > [linux-ide added back. please don't drop cc list] > > Kasimir Mueller wrote: > >> Tejun Heo schrieb: >> >>> Kasimir Müller wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Nov 12 19:28:42 linux kernel: ata6.02: cmd >>>> ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 >>>> Nov 12 19:28:42 linux kernel: res >>>> 40/00:00:09:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) >>>> >>>> >>> That's flush timing out, which isn't good. >>> >>> 1. Are the errors localized to ata6.02? >>> >>> >> I think it's ata6.01 >> > > The above message says 6.02 tho. Anyways, if the errors are localized > to one drive, please swap that drive with another drive. Do the errors > follow the drive or stay with the slot? > > >>> 2. Is FLUSH always involved (ie. is cmd always ea)? >>> >>> >> yes >> > > Hmmm... okay. That sounds like a dying drive to me. What does > 'smartctl -a /dev/sdX' say? > > >>> 3. If you disable NCQ, what do errors look like? >>> >>> >> I put all disk-drives in the blacklist , without a change >> > > So, NCQ isn't the problem. > > ATM, it sounds like a dying drive to me. 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