Re: Undecoded Interrupt with SiL3112 IDE?

Johannes Deisenhofer
2004-04-04T14:12:14Z

Justin Cormack wrote:
> siimage driver has buggy interrupt handling - have seen similar
> behaviour. It appears to be unmaintained. Recommend using libata
> instead.
>

I tried libata from 2.6.5-rc3. Previous versions are considered broken by the
author, especially for error handling.

However, I had far worse problems:

Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: <3>ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x0
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xF8854087
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB:
Read (10) 00 00 07 65 3f 00 00 c8 00
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: Current sda: sense key Medium Error
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto
reallocate failed
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 484671
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xF8854087
Apr 3 10:18:10 urmel last message repeated 2 times
Apr 3 10:19:47 urmel PAM_pwdb[3086]: (login) session opened for user root by
(uid=0)

This probably was a hardware problem. A new SATA cable seems to have fixed it.
Can't explain the 'medium error'.
SMART status of the drive is ok. No bad sectors according to SMART, none
reallocated.

Jo