Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Gerhard Mack wrote:
>>> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>> Gerhard Mack wrote:
>>>>> May  9 14:51:35 mgerhard kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
>>>>> SErr
>>>>> 0x1800000 action 0x2 frozen
>>>>> May  9 14:51:35 mgerhard kernel: ata1.00: cmd
>>>>> 35/00:00:80:6d:c8/00:04:09:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 out
>>>>> May  9 14:51:35 mgerhard kernel:          res
>>>>> 40/00:c8:68:65:c8/84:00:09:00:00/e0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>>>>> May  9 14:51:42 mgerhard kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond, please
>>>>> be
>>>>> patient (Status 0xd0)
>>>>>
>>>>> Anything I can do to figgure out what's causing this?
>> You're showing various flags set in the SError register, which suggests you're
>> having SATA communication problems with the drive. A bad SATA cable or power
>> problems would be a strong possibility.
>>
>> It really would be nice if we decoded these things more usefully for the user
>> (same with the regular ATA errors, like drivers/ide does), but in general
>> SError showing up as non-zero is a bad thing:
>>
>> 0x400000 = "Handshake error: When set to one, this bit indicates that one or
>> more R_ERR handshake response was received in response to frame transmission.
>> Such errors may be the result of a CRC error detected by the recipient, a
>> disparity or 10b/8b decoding error, or other error condition leading to a
>> negative handshake on a transmitted frame."
>>
>> 0x1800000 = "Link Sequence Error: When set to one, this bit indicates that one
>> or more Link state machine error conditions was encountered since the last
>> time this bit was cleared. The Link Layer state machine defines the conditions
>> under which the link layer detects an erroneous transition."
>>
>> and
>>
>> "Transport state transition error: When set to one, this bit indicates that an
>> error has occurred in the transition from one state to another within the
>> Transport layer since the last time this bit was cleared."
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity how often is that bit cleared?

I believe that is cleared only on error handling or controller reset, so 
   it just means that it happened sometime since boot or the last libata 
error recovery.

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