SATA CDDVDRW and kernel 2.6.23.12 problems

SATA CDDVDRW and kernel 2.6.23.12 problems

[Paul Surgeon]

I keep getting the following error messages during bootup with kernel
2.6.23.12 :

scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633A  UO00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: (irq_stat 0x40000001)
ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
         res 51/60:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
ata3: soft resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for PIO4
ata3: EH complete

The error repeats many times and it takes about 10 minutes for the box to boot.
If I unplug the DVD drive the problem naturally disappears.
The machine is an Intel SR1530SH.

Below is the output from lspci :
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server DRAM Controller
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit
Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200e
[Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02)
04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

I've tried switching acpi off, using irqpoll, switching from AHCI to
RAID in the BIOS but it makes no difference at all.
I also tried kernel 2.6.21.5 (Slackware 12.0) and the problem is still there.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Paul

Re: SATA CDDVDRW and kernel 2.6.23.12 problems

[Tejun Heo]

Paul Surgeon wrote:
> I keep getting the following error messages during bootup with kernel
> 2.6.23.12 :
> 
> scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633A  UO00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
> ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> ata3.00: (irq_stat 0x40000001)
> ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
>          res 51/60:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
> ata3: soft resetting port
> ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
> ata3.00: configured for PIO4
> ata3: EH complete
> 
> The error repeats many times and it takes about 10 minutes for the box to boot.
> If I unplug the DVD drive the problem naturally disappears.
> The machine is an Intel SR1530SH.
> 
> Below is the output from lspci :
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server DRAM Controller
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit
> Network Connection (rev 02)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
> 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200e
> [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02)
> 04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
> 
> I've tried switching acpi off, using irqpoll, switching from AHCI to
> RAID in the BIOS but it makes no difference at all.
> I also tried kernel 2.6.21.5 (Slackware 12.0) and the problem is still there.
> Any ideas?

Hmm... Can you please give a shot at 2.6.24-rc8 and if that fails post
full kernel log?

-- 
tejun

Re: dvdrw->cdrom

[Tejun Heo]

[restoring linux-ide. please don't drop cc's. use reply-to-all.]

Jake wrote:
> Hi, Tejun:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=120069298104580&w=4
> 
> It has been 2 weeks here hunting for some solutions,
> can you recommend anything that I should try? Thank you.

Can you please post full boot log from the working kernel && broken
kernel?  It seems you were using ide-scsi driver previously, right?
Also, w/ libata driver, does the reading part work okay?  Can you read cd's?

-- 
tejun

Re: dvdrw->cdrom

[Jake]

>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=120069298104580&w=4
>>
>> It has been 2 weeks here hunting for some solutions,
>> can you recommend anything that I should try? Thank you.
>
> Can you please post full boot log from the working kernel && broken
> kernel?  It seems you were using ide-scsi driver previously, right?
> Also, w/ libata driver, does the reading part work okay?  Can you read cd's?

Sure, Tejun, here they are:

working 2.6.16 kernel boot log
http://tinyurl.com/2xtzjf

broken 2.6.23.9 kernel boot log
http://tinyurl.com/yvkq6v

I will reboot as soon as my batch job completes to test the cds.

Jake

Re: dvdrw->cdrom

[Tejun Heo]

Jake wrote:
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=120069298104580&w=4
>>>
>>> It has been 2 weeks here hunting for some solutions,
>>> can you recommend anything that I should try? Thank you.
>>
>> Can you please post full boot log from the working kernel && broken
>> kernel?  It seems you were using ide-scsi driver previously, right?
>> Also, w/ libata driver, does the reading part work okay?  Can you read
>> cd's?
> 
> Sure, Tejun, here they are:
> 
> working 2.6.16 kernel boot log
> http://tinyurl.com/2xtzjf
> 
> broken 2.6.23.9 kernel boot log
> http://tinyurl.com/yvkq6v
> 
> I will reboot as soon as my batch job completes to test the cds.

Does sata_nv.adma=0 fix your problem?

-- 
tejun

Re: dvdrw->cdrom

[Robert Hancock]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Jake wrote:
>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=120069298104580&w=4
>>>>
>>>> It has been 2 weeks here hunting for some solutions,
>>>> can you recommend anything that I should try? Thank you.
>>> Can you please post full boot log from the working kernel && broken
>>> kernel?  It seems you were using ide-scsi driver previously, right?
>>> Also, w/ libata driver, does the reading part work okay?  Can you read
>>> cd's?
>> Sure, Tejun, here they are:
>>
>> working 2.6.16 kernel boot log
>> http://tinyurl.com/2xtzjf
>>
>> broken 2.6.23.9 kernel boot log
>> http://tinyurl.com/yvkq6v
>>
>> I will reboot as soon as my batch job completes to test the cds.
> 
> Does sata_nv.adma=0 fix your problem?

This is almost certainly the already-known DMA mask issue with ADMA 
enabled and memory over 4GB present.

Re: dvdrw->cdrom

[Jake]

>> Jake wrote:
>>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=120069298104580&w=4
>>>>> 
>>>>> It has been 2 weeks here hunting for some solutions, can you 
>>>>> recommend anything that I should try? Thank you.
>>>> Can you please post full boot log from the working kernel && broken 
>>>> kernel?  It seems you were using ide-scsi driver previously, right? 
>>>> Also, w/ libata driver, does the reading part work okay?  Can you 
>>>> read cd's?
>>> 
>>> I will reboot as soon as my batch job completes to test the cds.
>> 
>> Does sata_nv.adma=0 fix your problem?
>
> This is almost certainly the already-known DMA mask issue with ADMA enabled 
> and memory over 4GB present.

Tejun,

the boot flag made the difference!
Ahh, so it is > and = 4GB (I have exactly 4GB).

I will pass on the wisdom in hope to save someone
else a few hours down the road.

Thank you!

Jake