On Friday 08 June 2007, HG wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 6/8/07, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 June 2007 11:34:26 HG wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I've just created RAID 5 with Promise TX4 and 4 x ST3500630AS (Seagate
> > > 7200.10). I'm running the latest kernel for SUSE 10.2, which is
> > > 2.6.18.8-0.3-default and it's using sata_promise as driver. Seemed
> > > fine, but I just noticed that it generates lots of errors in the logs:
> > >
> > > Jun 8 03:35:20 delta kernel: ata4: no sense translation for status:
> > > 0x50 Jun 8 03:35:20 delta kernel: ata4: translated ATA stat/err
> > > 0x50/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> > > Jun 8 03:35:20 delta kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady
> > > SeekComplete }
> > >
> > > I get these for all the disks in the raid (ata1, ata2, ata3, ata4).
> > > The controller and the disks are brand new. Smartctl doesn't find
> > > anything wrong with the disks (-t long).
> > >
> > > Something is definitely wrong. I can not find out what. I did find
> > > some indication from a little googling that it could be a bug in the
> > > sata_promise. There were somebody here using the same SATA card with
> > > SUSE 10.2 just a while ago... is anybody else seeing these? I'm just
> > > about to move all my files there, but just now I'm quite worried.
> > >
> > > --
> > > HG.
> >
> > Looks more like FYI messages rather than errors to me.
>
> But I get them a lot and I've never seen them before. It seems that it
> happens during high disk activity and not always. So something out of
> the ordinary definitely happens.
>
> --
> HG.
Some google hits suggest turning off smart in the bios may
suppress the messages.
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