Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-05-08 Thread UBM
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:01:53 +0200 Marc UBM Bocklet u...@u-boot-man.de wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:08:29 +0100 Marc UBM Bocklet u...@u-boot-man.de wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:39:51 +1100 Andrew Snow and...@modulus.org wrote: I think that if you use eSATA you probably need

Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-03-29 Thread UBM
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:08:29 +0100 Marc UBM Bocklet u...@u-boot-man.de wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:39:51 +1100 Andrew Snow and...@modulus.org wrote: I think that if you use eSATA you probably need dedicated eSATA controller ports. eSATA standard specifies a higher voltage for the

Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-20 Thread Bartosz Stec
Marc UBM pisze: Hiho! :-) Occasionally, especially when uploading a large number of files, the (brand-new, tested) sata disks in my fileserver spit out some of these errors: --- Jan 19 19:51:14 hamstor kernel: ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)

problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-19 Thread UBM
Hiho! :-) Occasionally, especially when uploading a large number of files, the (brand-new, tested) sata disks in my fileserver spit out some of these errors: --- Jan 19 19:51:14 hamstor kernel: ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=882778752

problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-19 Thread Marc UBM
Hiho! :-) Occasionally, especially when uploading a large number of files, the (brand-new, tested) sata disks in my fileserver spit out some of these errors: --- Jan 19 19:51:14 hamstor kernel: ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=882778752

Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Snow
I think that if you use eSATA you probably need dedicated eSATA controller ports. eSATA standard specifies a higher voltage for the longer cable distances. Judging from the sporadic problem reports, Promise TX4 is probably not the best at signal purity to begin with so using it for eSATA

Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-19 Thread David Figuera
I've fiddled with the cables, which seemed to help, but I've been unable to completely eliminate the errors. The disks are two Western Digital MyBooks Home Edition (1 TB per disk), connected to a Promise TX 4 SATA Controller: atap...@pci0:1:6:0: class=0x018000 card=0x3d17105a chip=0x3d17105a

Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-19 Thread Wes Morgan
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Marc UBM wrote: Hiho! :-) Occasionally, especially when uploading a large number of files, the (brand-new, tested) sata disks in my fileserver spit out some of these errors: I've found that those kind of errors are very, very controller-dependent. Case in point - a

Re: problems with sata disks (taskqueue timeout)

2009-01-19 Thread UBM
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:39:51 +1100 Andrew Snow and...@modulus.org wrote: I think that if you use eSATA you probably need dedicated eSATA controller ports. eSATA standard specifies a higher voltage for the longer cable distances. Judging from the sporadic problem reports, Promise TX4 is