From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Klotz Subject: Errors when powering on eSATA box Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:41:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4AE9FDE6.5040203@aon.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from warsl404pip5.highway.telekom.at ([195.3.96.77]:21582 "EHLO email.aon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756662AbZJ2UlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:41:09 -0400 Received: from 188-23-170-36.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO [192.168.0.102]) ([188.23.170.36]) (envelope-sender ) by smarthub95.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Oct 2009 20:41:11 -0000 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org I have an eSATA box (2 HDDs) that when operated in BIG mode shows lots of errors during startup. Both HDDs are started then stopped and started again. When first starting up the system reports a size of 7.99 GiB, finally the correct value of 2.72 TiB is displayed. Can I trust a system showing the errors below? Regards, Peter. [ 8893.208921] ata6: hard resetting link [ 8898.990123] ata6: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 8901.332637] ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 8901.333317] ACPI Error: Attempt to CreateField of length zero 20090521 dsopcode-529 [ 8901.333334] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node ffff88013ba324c0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8901.333458] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRT5._GTF] (Node ffff88013ba326a0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8901.333586] ata6.00: _GTF evaluation failed (AE 0x3004) [ 8901.333596] ata6.00: ATA-7: Config Disk 0, 1.1589, max MWDMA2 [ 8901.333603] ata6.00: 16777215 sectors, multi 1: LBA [ 8901.334284] ACPI Error: Attempt to CreateField of length zero 20090521 dsopcode-529 [ 8901.334299] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node ffff88013ba324c0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8901.334420] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRT5._GTF] (Node ffff88013ba326a0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8901.334547] ata6.00: _GTF evaluation failed (AE 0x3004) [ 8901.334584] ata6.00: configured for PIO4 [ 8901.334599] ata6: EH complete [ 8901.334770] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Config Disk 0 1.15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 8901.337074] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 8901.337089] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 16777215 512-byte logical blocks: (8.58 GB/7.99 GiB) [ 8901.337205] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 8901.337273] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 8901.337603] sdc: [ 8901.339604] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk [ 8906.325426] ata6: hard resetting link [ 8907.070160] ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 8907.070315] ata6.00: model number mismatch 'Config Disk 0' != 'External Disk 0' [ 8907.070333] ata6: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 8912.072673] ata6: hard resetting link [ 8912.420149] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 8912.420301] ata6.00: model number mismatch 'Config Disk 0' != 'External Disk 0' [ 8912.420316] ata6.00: disabled [ 8917.420107] ata6: hard resetting link [ 8917.780127] ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 8917.780857] ACPI Error: Attempt to CreateField of length zero 20090521 dsopcode-529 [ 8917.780873] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node ffff88013ba324c0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8917.780996] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRT5._GTF] (Node ffff88013ba326a0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8917.781124] ata6.00: _GTF evaluation failed (AE 0x3004) [ 8917.781136] ata6.00: ATA-7: External Disk 0, 1.1589, max UDMA/133 [ 8917.781143] ata6.00: 5860554336 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 8917.781869] ACPI Error: Attempt to CreateField of length zero 20090521 dsopcode-529 [ 8917.781883] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.RATA] (Node ffff88013ba324c0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8917.782004] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE0.PRT5._GTF] (Node ffff88013ba326a0), AE_AML_OPERAND_VALUE [ 8917.782130] ata6.00: _GTF evaluation failed (AE 0x3004) [ 8917.782168] ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 8917.782182] ata6: EH complete [ 8917.782206] ata6.00: detaching (SCSI 5:0:0:0) [ 8917.782811] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Stopping disk [ 8920.518523] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA External Disk 0 1.15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 8920.520478] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 5860554336 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB) [ 8920.520593] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 8920.520660] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 8920.520986] sdc: [ 8920.524398] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 8924.295185] unknown partition table [ 8924.295659] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk