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SubjectRe: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

Hello, Chris.

Chris Boot wrote:
>
> On 12 Aug 2005, at 4:24, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>> Chris Boot wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives
>>> and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives
>>> my motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't
>>> get the hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work
>>> reasonably well under _very_ light load, but anything like building
>>> a RAID array is a bit much and the whole controller seems to lock up.
>>> I've tried adding the drive to the blacklist in the sata_sil.c
>>> driver and I still have the same trouble: as you can see the
>>> messages below relate to my patched kernel with the blacklist fix.
>>> I've seen that this was discussed just yesterday, but that seemed
>>> to give nothing: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/
>>> kernel/0508.1/0310.html
>>> Ready and willing to hack my kernel to pieces; this machine is no
>>> use until I get all the drives working! Needless to say the drives
>>> connected to the on-board VIA controller work fine, as do the
>>> drives currently on the SiI controller if I swap them around.
>>> Any ideas?
>>> TIA
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
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>> Can you please try w/ vanilla kernel (2.6.12 or 2.6.13-rc)? And w/
>> one drive only?
>
>
> I unplugged both drives from my on-board SATA controller and left just
> one connected to the 3112A controller. Rebooted with a fresh, vanilla
> 2.6.13-rc6 and ran:

You can leave drives on on-board SATA controller. It wouldn't make
any difference.

>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1M count=16384
>
> After about 30 seconds I got the crash and the kernel started repeating
> every 30 seconds (with different sector numbers):
>
> ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd9 host_stat 0x1
> ata1: status=0xd9 { Busy }
> SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x80000002
> sda: Current: sense key=0xb
> ASC=0x47 ASCQ=0x0
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 14937602
> ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port E0802087
> ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port E0802087
> ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port E0802087
>
> dmesg:
> Linux version 2.6.13-rc6 (bootc@arcadia.bootc.net) (gcc version
> 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1,
> pie-8.7.7.1)) #1 Fri Aug 12 12:31:25 BST 2005
> ...
> libata version 1.11 loaded.
> sata_sil version 0.9
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE0802080 ctl 0xE080208A bmdma 0xE0802000
> irq 177
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08020C0 ctl 0xE08020CA bmdma 0xE0802008
> irq 177
> ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023
> 88:207f
> ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
> ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
> scsi0 : sata_sil
> ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi1 : sata_sil
> Vendor: ATA Model: ST3250823AS Rev: 3.03
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> sata_via version 1.1
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 169
> PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.0, from 11 to 9
> sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 9
> ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB400 ctl 0xB802 bmdma 0xC400 irq 169
> ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBC00 ctl 0xC002 bmdma 0xC408 irq 169
> ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi2 : sata_via
> ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi3 : sata_via
> SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
>
> I forgot to mention previously but I even tried with "noapic nolapic
> acpi=off pci=routeirq" and got the same trouble.

This is weird as ST3250823AS (and all Seagate .8 drives) are known to
work without any problem with sii 3112/3114. I currently don't own such
a drive but someone confirmed me that ST3250823AS works w/ sii 3114
without any problem (including bonnie++ results and all). So, I don't
think it's the good old mod15write problem.

I hope it's just a bad hardware, cable or something like that;
otherwise, you're hitting a new bug. Can you verify if the drive works
under windows?

--
tejun
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