Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>]

Justin Piszcz said:     (by the date of Sun, 2 Dec 2007 04:11:59 -0500 (EST))

> The badblocks did not do anything; however, when I built a software raid 5 
> and the performed a dd:
> 
> /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=fill_disk bs=1M
> 
> I saw this somewhere along the way:
> 
> [42332.936706] ata5.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 
> SAct=0x7000 FIS=004040a1:00000800
> [42333.240054] ata5: soft resetting port

I know nothing about NCQ ;) But I find it interesting that *slower*
access worked fine while *fast* access didn't.

If I understand you correctly:

- badblocks is slower, and you said that it worked flawlessly, right?
- getting from /dev/zero is the fastest thing you can do, and it fails...

I'd check jumpers on HDD and if there is any, set it to 1.5 Gb speed
instead of default 3.0 Gb. Or sth. along that way. I remember seeing
such jumper on one of my HDDs (I don't remember the exact speed
numbers though). 

Also on one forum I remember about problems occurring when HDD was
working at maximum speed, which was faster than the IO controller
could handle.

I dunno. It's just what came to my mind...
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Janek Kozicki                                                         |