Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:34:36 -0400 | From | George Georgalis <> | Subject | Re: SATA 3112 errors on 2.6.7 |
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:10:05PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote: >Apparently, we have: >1) A serious error condition that occurs on Seagate SATA drives connected to >Silicon Image controllers. >2) As of today we can say that it only occurs on Seagate drives (Ricky, do I >remember correctly that you see faulty behavior of such drives with a 3ware >RAID?). >3) The error is reported by the kernel like that: > >ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x1 >ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xCF819087 >scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 03 ca 47 00 00 00 >00 >Current sda: sense key Medium Error >Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed >end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 248391 > >Afterwards, the drive blocks its SATA bus in a "busy" mode and cannot be >accessed by any means (ie. hardware reset is necessary). >4) The most "reliable" way to trigger this condition is to copy a lot of data >(eg. 2 GB) to the drive in one shot.
I can't speak for other hardware. Sounds the same for me though, accept I'm not getting any error from console or /proc/kmsg... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108792673031602&w=2
running hdparm -Tt in a loop doesn't cause any problem.
// George
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