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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to ... PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) related cold freezes
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:18:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F1C5C5.3030504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156692788.12244.11.camel@localhost>

Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 18:37 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I just upgraded to using 2 sata disks (both seagate drives
>>> ST3400832AS and ST3750640AS) on this asus a7v8x on-board promise fastrak
>>> 376 (PDC20376) controller. However, as soon as I do a lot of io (cp some
>>> G of files) I get swamped in 
>>>
>>> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
>>> ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>> ata1: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError }
>>> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
>>> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>> ata2: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError }
>>> ...
>> Is the system usable after these messages?
> 
> Yes, however I got cold freezes from (time to time) after a while...

I see.  your drive is reporting error for some reason and libata is 
failing to recover.

>>> messages. For that it is enough to do it on a single drive or copy from
>>> drive to drive. This is on kernel 2.6.17.4, but I remember (when I was
>>> still using a single drive) this very same output to happen on 2.6.15.
>>>
>>> Can anyone translate these dubious error messages to me ?
>>>
>>> Here are more details about the system:
>>>
>>> - the sata_promise driver version 1.04 is used
>> Can you give a shot at 2.6.18-rc4?
> 
> I will, though I don't see much changes in that driver...

Ah.. right.  sata_promise isn't converted to new EH yet.  There's no 
reason to try -rc4.  Please stand by.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-27 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24 17:34 translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to ... PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) related cold freezes Soeren Sonnenburg
2006-08-27  9:37 ` Tejun Heo
2006-08-27 15:33   ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2006-08-27 16:18     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-08-27 16:24       ` Tejun Heo

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