On 9/17/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> > boot configuration more complicated if booting off the pata drive. Is
> > there any way to control which order the drives are assigned when not
> > building w/ modules?
>
> Please use mount-by-LABEL or UUID.
Thanks, wasn't aware of that functionality. Works like a charm.
> > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x2 frozen
> > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x280000 action 0x0
>
> In both cases, SError is indicating transmission problem. Handshake
> error and Unrecognized FIS type in the first case, 10b to 8b decode
> error and CRC error on the second case. I can't tell why but signals
> flying through those redish cables are getting corrupted.
I've replaced the cables with a different brand I had laying around,
and I haven't seen a problem yet. I'll need to test it heavily, though
to see if I can trigger anything to pop up.
I didn't mention it before, but I'm also getting these errors every
time I boot. I'm thinking they're related to the drive not supporting
cmds that smartd is sending it. If so, is there any way that
libata/smartd can handle this more gracefully? This stuff spews into
dmesg and gives a scare that there is a real hardware problem that may
cause data corruption. I get exactly 6 instances of each of these two
blocks of output prior to reaching the login prompt:
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
res 51/04:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1: EH complete
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
res 51/04:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2: EH complete
Thanks, -Andrew
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