Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:05:43 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SiI 3512 Serial ATA Controller - kernel 2.6.23 |
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Dan Nica wrote: > hello > > I have a problem with a serial ata controller > that uses a SiI 3512 chip.
A complete dmesg, complete lspci would be helpful.
> when I'm trying to add a device thats on the 3512 controller > to the array that I have, it give me lots of errors in dmesg > like this: > > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0 > ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8652001 > ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:3f:5c:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680 > out > res 51/04:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
That's the device reporting an error, when the system issued a WRITE command ("cmd 35/....."), and the SiI controller is happily reporting that error to you.
I would worry about the device, if it is reporting errors on WRITE.
Jeff
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