Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Casey Scott
> After a reread when it finally stuck that this started with an upgrade > to 8, > I like Mathew's suggestion to use a 7.x LiveCD (and possibly a -Stable > > snapshot as well) to see if it is a 7.x vs 8.x problem. Even so, there > still > might be a possibility that firmware in the drive tickl

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] > > As far as the ATA driver code, if you have recently changed from 7.x to > 8.x that might be worth considering. If there has been a regression I'm > sure a PR would be in order. Just a few random thoughts off the top of my > head. But me, the first thing I'd do is d

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Michael Powell
Casey Scott wrote: > Since upgrading to 8.0 RELEASE, I continually get these errors: > > ... > Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: ad6: 953869MB at > ata3-master SATA150 Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): TEST > UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: > (probe6:ahc0:0:6

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Casey Scott
I did try different cables. Just failed to mention that. The LiveCD is a great suggestion. I'll try that this evening, and see how everything works. I considered the hardware being marginal, but was surprised when a brand new disk controller also failed. In any case, I'll try the LiveCD and se

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 16:06:36, Casey Scott wrote: > I'd appreciate it if someone could lend some assistance with this > issue. The machine in question is pretty much unusable atm! You've tried swapping out the drives and the disk controllers, but have you tr

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Casey Scott
I'd appreciate it if someone could lend some assistance with this issue. The machine in question is pretty much unusable atm! Regards, Casey - "Casey Scott" wrote: > Since upgrading to 8.0 RELEASE, I continually get these errors: > > ... > Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: ad6: 953869MB > at

SATA time outs

2010-06-14 Thread Casey Scott
Since upgrading to 8.0 RELEASE, I continually get these errors: ... Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: ad6: 953869MB at ata3-master SATA150 Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Err