From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751007AbWIZFI2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:08:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751014AbWIZFI2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:08:28 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.226]:55071 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750978AbWIZFI0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:08:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SKT/wyXXrnGFGo1o1FrPu8WEJ0bAGus18b39bzGx5bxl1FBLSXfwoCg3xZRhcUVTVBx2Cxr9mhzl3i12KWS43sqeUDNC1ljo0kkYWw8cZxCCLeXJ6zmEAmRTmEK/cZ+QibOr4ewA1hjH75HzHGTTneaFBCHcoly0AIhDGFV1VRE= Message-ID: <4518B5C4.6020207@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:08:20 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Atkins CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Serial ATA (sii3512a) support References: <4515624A.4090100@skircr.com> In-Reply-To: <4515624A.4090100@skircr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [cc'ing linux-ide] Stephen Atkins wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm just wondering what the status is for the Silicon > Image 3512a serial ata support is. Pretty good actually. > I was using gentoo-sources 2.6.12 my Seagate drives worked fine. I'm > now running a gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r1 and support has broken. The same > thing with gentoo-sources 2.6.17-r8. I've added my drives to the > sata_sil.c black list (one of them was missing) but I still get > "Abnormal status 0x58 on port ..." errors. Which essentially crashes my > machine. That looks like transmission failure and to me it doesn't seem to be a driver problem and please don't add your drive to sata_sil blacklist. The blacklist is for very specific cases and won't fix your problem other than sometimes hiding the real problem by slowing things down a lot. When does such error occur? Is it reproducible? How often does it occur? > Unfortunately I don't have the 2.6.12 kernel from Gentoo any more as I > did a emerge --sync and it got rid of it. Also some of the other > drivers I'm using need more recent kernel versions. > > Just some notes on my MB/chipsets. I've got a Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2 > with an nForce2 chipset. It has a on board SATA which the manual says > is a Sil3112 but the bios reports it as a Sil3512a. I've got a single 6 > gig IDE as my boot device and root dir. There are also two SATA drives > both are Seagates. One is a ST3250823AS (250 gigs) and a ST3120026AS > (120 gigs). I know the Seagate drives have some issues and hence the > black list. > > Just wondering if there is anything I can do to make these things work > in some of the latest kernels. Thanks for you help. Can you give a shot at 2.6.18? It contains improved EH which should be able to recover from the condition you described. -- tejun