Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:33:29 -0500 | From | Roger Heflin <> | Subject | Re: sata_mv issues with more than 1 disk in FC5 2.6.16-1.2096 |
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Roger Heflin wrote: > Hello, > > I know the FC5 2.6.16-1.2096 is based off of one of the 2.6.16 > stable releases. I am not sure exactly which one this is based > on. > > I have several machines with this controller, the ones with a single > disks all work correctly using the Marvell controller. > > An identical MB/controller/chassis fails when there are 2 disks > using software mirroring. We have tested with 2 separate chassis, > both exhibit the same failure. > > Moving the 2 disks to a different built-in sata controller > (sata_nv) results in the disks and the mirror working > correctly. > > The errors that it returns are: > ata4: status=0xd0 { Busy } > ata2: status=0xd0 { Busy } > And the machine is terribly slow while this error is happening. > The error appears to be happening when the disks are trying > to be mounted. > > We have tested the disk on a couple of different combinations of > ports and this does not seem to change anything. > > The single disk machines don't get this error like the 2 disk > machines, though they do get this error, every 30 minutes > or so (probably from smartd), but this error does not > appear to be causing issues. > Apr 19 16:26:19 lab229 kernel: ata1: status=0xd0 { Busy } > Apr 19 16:26:19 lab229 kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on > port 0xFFFFC2001012211C > > Any thoughts? > > Roger
And at least one FC5 2.6.15 variant has the same behavior, so it is not just on the 2.6.16.x variants.
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