Tomi Orava wrote:
Have you had time to check if the latest patch fixes our problems
with promise-controller ?
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=11694action=view
The above patch seems to apply to the latest rc4 kernel.
I have not found the time to reboot my own server as of yet.
Hello,
I have tried exchanging SATA cables, but still have the problem with
sata_promise using 2.6.21-git16.
Unfortunately, I don't have any solution for you but I wanted to let you
know that you are not alone with this problem. I'm still running
with 2.6.21-rc3-git10 based kernel with
Hi Tomi,
Thanks for the reply :-)
I don't know if this would be possible for you, but I think it would be
interesting to see what would happen if you swapped the SATA cable on
one of your problem drives with one which is ok. In my system (four
identical drives) I have the feeling the problem
Hi,
I don't know if this would be possible for you, but I think it would be
interesting to see what would happen if you swapped the SATA cable on
one of your problem drives with one which is ok. In my system (four
identical drives) I have the feeling the problem is only on two of the
ports
Hi,
I have tried exchanging SATA cables, but still have the problem with
sata_promise using 2.6.21-git16.
HW info:
Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)
with 4 Seagate 500GB ES drives:
Model Number: ST3500630NS
Firmware Revision: 3.AEE
(with
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:41:32 +0200, Peter Favrholdt wrote:
I would like to help by testing the most recent version of the
sata_promise driver on my
Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)
with 4 Seagate 500GB ES drives:
Model Number: ST3500630NS
Replying to my own post:
Wanted to add that the ata1 port just died even without doing any
smartctl's - and not recovering.
BR Peter
Peter Favrholdt wrote:
Hi,
I've tested with 2.6.21.1 with the following patches (which applied
cleanly):
I have now tested with 2.6.21-git16 with the same result: sda and sdd
froze after copying 1.7GB and 2.7GB respectively.
Here is dmesg output:
[ 59.070670] sata_promise :01:08.0: version 2.07
stuff deleted
[ 402.136295] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x138
action 0x2
Hi,
I would like to help by testing the most recent version of the
sata_promise driver on my
Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)
with 4 Seagate 500GB ES drives:
Model Number: ST3500630NS
Firmware Revision: 3.AEE
(with 1.5/3.0Gbps jumper
