Re: SiI 3512 Serial ATA Controller - kernel 2.6.23

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Dan Nica wrote:
> hello
> 
> I have a problem with a serial ata controller
> that uses a SiI 3512 chip.

A complete dmesg, complete lspci would be helpful.


> when I'm trying to add a device thats on the 3512 controller 
> to the array that I have, it give me lots of errors in dmesg
> like this:
> 
> ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
> ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8652001
> ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:3f:5c:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680 
> out
>          res 51/04:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)

That's the device reporting an error, when the system issued a WRITE 
command ("cmd 35/....."), and the SiI controller is happily reporting 
that error to you.

I would worry about the device, if it is reporting errors on WRITE.

	Jeff