Re: Linux 2.6.24 sata_promise SATA300TX4 problems

2008-01-27 Thread Peter Favrholdt
Hi Mikael, Thanks! It works perfectly at 1.5Gbps :-) I think that because it fails at 3Gbps it might eventually fail at 1.5Gbps also... And the error handling was not robust (in my setup with these drives at 3Gbps). If I can help investigate further, I'm happy to do that. I have a spare co

Re: Linux 2.6.24 sata_promise SATA300TX4 problems

2008-01-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Favrholdt writes: > Hi Mikael, > > Thanks for your reply :-) > > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Mysterious. What you have there is a transmission error between the > > controller and the disk, which is bad in and by itself, but then there's > > a sequence of COMRESETs that fail to bri

Re: Linux 2.6.24 sata_promise SATA300TX4 problems

2008-01-26 Thread Peter Favrholdt
Hi Mikael, Thanks for your reply :-) Mikael Pettersson wrote: Mysterious. What you have there is a transmission error between the controller and the disk, which is bad in and by itself, but then there's a sequence of COMRESETs that fail to bring the port or disk back to life. The original erro

Re: Linux 2.6.24 sata_promise SATA300TX4 problems

2008-01-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Favrholdt writes: > Hi Mikael & list, > > I have previously reported problems with my setup: > > SATA300TX4 + 4 Seagate Barracuda ES 500GB > > I just tested with 2.6.24. After copying approx 25GB of each drive using > dd if=/dev/sd[abcd] of=/dev/null bs=1M > sda failed with the