Re: sata_nv exceptions in 2.6.20.3

[Christopher Mulcahy <cmulcahy@avesi.com>]

Robert Hancock thought this was a hardware problem.
He was right.

I switched around cables on the hot-swap backplane, figuring that I 
would determine whether I had a bad cable or a bad backplane ( hoping 
for a bad cable ) and the problem went away.   One of the cables wasn't 
seated properly apparently.  ( It was a tight 1U box with very 
aggressive twist-ties that I had to cut to switch them around, so this 
wasn't immediately obvious.

I would make sure that all cables are seated properly, and try a 
different cable if the problem persists.

Vincent Jorrand wrote:
> I saw your email in the kernel dev mailing and I think I have the same problem, but since I am not a kernel developer, or running the bleeding edge kernels, I was not sure whether it was appropriate for me to post on the list.
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>   My hard drive is a Seagate Barracudas ( 7200.10, 750GB, ST3750640AS ), very similar to yours. It is brand new (less than a month old)
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>      CPB flags CMD err, flags-0x11
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> I am running kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6
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> Did you figure out a way to fix the problem?
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