Re: SATA problems

2007-09-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:24:18 + Nigel Kukard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hrmmm, >> > > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > > > 0x0001c807 > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status

Re: SATA problems

2007-09-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:24:18 + Nigel Kukard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrmmm, Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807

Re: SATA problems

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:24:18 + Nigel Kukard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hrmmm, > > >> > > >> > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > >> > > > 0x0001c807 > >> > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > >> > > >

Re: SATA problems

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:24:18 + Nigel Kukard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrmmm, Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Unrelated to

Re: SATA problems

2007-08-30 Thread Nigel Kukard
Hrmmm, >> > >> > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port >> > > > 0x0001c807 >> > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port >> > > > 0x0001c807 >> > >> > Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to ask for a

Re: SATA problems

2007-08-30 Thread Nigel Kukard
Hrmmm, Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to ask for a while.. If this is

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-18 Thread Nigel Kukard
> > > > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > > > > 0x0001c807 > > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > > > > 0x0001c807 > > > > Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to ask for a while.. > > If

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:28:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > > > 0x0001c807 > > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-18 Thread Nigel Kukard
Hi Jeff, Ok ... second part of my problem. Where should I look in trying to debug the below problem... Regards Nigel Jun 18 07:59:56 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jun 18 07:59:56 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: cmd

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-18 Thread Nigel Kukard
Hi Jeff, Ok ... second part of my problem. Where should I look in trying to debug the below problem... Regards Nigel Jun 18 07:59:56 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jun 18 07:59:56 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: cmd

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:28:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-18 Thread Nigel Kukard
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to ask for a while.. If this is 'abnormal', why

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > > 0x0001c807 > > Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port > > 0x0001c807 Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nigel Kukard wrote: I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem. I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: cmd

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Nigel Kukard
>> I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem. >> >> I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. >> >> Any help greatly appreciated! >> >> Regards >> Nigel >> >> >> Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 >> SErr 0x0 action

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nigel Kukard wrote: I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem. I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. Any help greatly appreciated! Regards Nigel Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nigel Kukard wrote: I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem. I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. Any help greatly appreciated! Regards Nigel Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Nigel Kukard
I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem. I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. Any help greatly appreciated! Regards Nigel Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jun 14

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nigel Kukard wrote: I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem. I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21. Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: cmd

Re: SATA problems

2007-06-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:21:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001c807 Unrelated to the other error, but I've been meaning to ask for a

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-17 Thread Robert Hancock
Christian wrote: I'm seeing the same here since a few days. Before it worked great (even with NCQ). I've been getting those messages since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 and with the latest Ubuntu feisty kernel (2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 03:43:56 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux) System is Athlon64 X2,

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-17 Thread Christian
I'm seeing the same here since a few days. Before it worked great (even with NCQ). I've been getting those messages since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 and with the latest Ubuntu feisty kernel (2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 03:43:56 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux) System is Athlon64 X2, Nforce4, 3x Samsung

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-17 Thread Christian
I'm seeing the same here since a few days. Before it worked great (even with NCQ). I've been getting those messages since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 and with the latest Ubuntu feisty kernel (2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 03:43:56 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux) System is Athlon64 X2, Nforce4, 3x Samsung

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-17 Thread Robert Hancock
Christian wrote: I'm seeing the same here since a few days. Before it worked great (even with NCQ). I've been getting those messages since 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 and with the latest Ubuntu feisty kernel (2.6.20-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Mar 15 03:43:56 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux) System is Athlon64 X2,

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:44:25 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. > > > > I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. > > > > Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 16 March 2007 23:44, you wrote: > Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. > > > > I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. > > > > Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still there. > > Can you try

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Robert Hancock
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still there. Can you try 2.6.21-rc and see if the problem is fixed in those kernels? --

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:58:21 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. > > > > I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. > > > > Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still there. Setting the module parameter 'adma' to zero fixes this, yes? Jeff

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still there. Setting the module parameter 'adma' to zero fixes this, yes? Jeff

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:58:21 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Robert Hancock
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still there. Can you try 2.6.21-rc and see if the problem is fixed in those kernels? --

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 16 March 2007 23:44, you wrote: Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still there. Can you try 2.6.21-rc and

Re: SATA problems in 2.6.20.3

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:44:25 -0600 Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: I normally run a modified 2.6.19 kernel and it works great. I recently tried 2.6.20 and had severe SATA problems with it. Yesterday I tried 2.6.20.3, and the problems are still

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-21 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-21 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ

RE: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Rolland
Heo > Cc: Pablo Sebastian Greco; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: SATA problems > > Tejun, > > I checked out the kernel 2.6.19 to 2.6.20 Changelog. Seems like you > fixed a problem with the JMB363. The Asus P5B-Deluxe I am using has a > JMB363 - besides an Intel

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Haebler
Tejun, I checked out the kernel 2.6.19 to 2.6.20 Changelog. Seems like you fixed a problem with the JMB363. The Asus P5B-Deluxe I am using has a JMB363 - besides an Intel ICH8R - with the SATA ports set to AHCI as well. Looks like that might have been the source of the problem in 2.6.19.

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Haebler
Tejun, thanks. In preparation of your patch I installed a vanilla 2.6.20.1 kernel on my FC6 system. Amazingly the problem went away with the vanilla(!) kernel and NCQ is enabled at boot time (queue_depth is 31). I guess I should have tried that kernel earlier. The patches you sent earlier apply

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Marcus Haebler wrote: > thanks for the patches! I am on an Intel P965/ICH8R. I see. That can happen too. There was a race window where in-flight r/w command which left SCSI midlayer but pending on libata gets executed in the wrong mode. If possible, please verify that it doesn't happen with

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ >> device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix >> the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work >> fine in NCQ mode. My gut

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Haebler
Tejun, thanks for the patches! I am on an Intel P965/ICH8R. Best, Marcus On 2/20/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ mode. My gut feeling is that your problem is power

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
* Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ mode. My gut feeling is that your problem is power related from the

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
* Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ mode. My gut feeling is that your problem is power related from the

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ mode. My gut feeling is that your problem is power

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Haebler
Tejun, thanks for the patches! I am on an Intel P965/ICH8R. Best, Marcus On 2/20/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: * Pablo, the bug you saw was bad interaction between blacklisted NCQ device and dynamic queue depth adjustment. Patches are submitted to fix the problem. Just drop the blacklist patch. Your drives should work fine in NCQ mode. My gut feeling

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Marcus Haebler wrote: thanks for the patches! I am on an Intel P965/ICH8R. I see. That can happen too. There was a race window where in-flight r/w command which left SCSI midlayer but pending on libata gets executed in the wrong mode. If possible, please verify that it doesn't happen with the

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Haebler
Tejun, thanks. In preparation of your patch I installed a vanilla 2.6.20.1 kernel on my FC6 system. Amazingly the problem went away with the vanilla(!) kernel and NCQ is enabled at boot time (queue_depth is 31). I guess I should have tried that kernel earlier. The patches you sent earlier apply

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Haebler
Tejun, I checked out the kernel 2.6.19 to 2.6.20 Changelog. Seems like you fixed a problem with the JMB363. The Asus P5B-Deluxe I am using has a JMB363 - besides an Intel ICH8R - with the SATA ports set to AHCI as well. Looks like that might have been the source of the problem in 2.6.19.

RE: SATA problems

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Rolland
@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA problems Tejun, I checked out the kernel 2.6.19 to 2.6.20 Changelog. Seems like you fixed a problem with the JMB363. The Asus P5B-Deluxe I am using has a JMB363 - besides an Intel ICH8R - with the SATA ports set to AHCI as well. Looks like that might have been

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-17 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Marcus Haebler wrote: I opened a bug report (228979) on bugzilla.redhat.com on this one because I have the same issue under FC6 2.6.19-1.2895. Here is the link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228979 Do you have any more updates on this problem? Is there a way I can

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-17 Thread Marcus Haebler
I opened a bug report (228979) on bugzilla.redhat.com on this one because I have the same issue under FC6 2.6.19-1.2895. Here is the link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228979 Do you have any more updates on this problem? Is there a way I can help by providing debug

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-17 Thread Marcus Haebler
I opened a bug report (228979) on bugzilla.redhat.com on this one because I have the same issue under FC6 2.6.19-1.2895. Here is the link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228979 Do you have any more updates on this problem? Is there a way I can help by providing debug

Re: SATA problems

2007-02-17 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Marcus Haebler wrote: I opened a bug report (228979) on bugzilla.redhat.com on this one because I have the same issue under FC6 2.6.19-1.2895. Here is the link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228979 Do you have any more updates on this problem? Is there a way I can

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: > Well, it took me a few days, but I think I'm ready to report back. One > of the drives was failing, and it stopped after rewiring power supply so > the last problem seems to be corrected. > OTOH, your blacklist seems to be needed too, now I'm running FC6 >

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-23 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Pablo. Please apply common hardware debugging method. You know, swap drives. Use separate power supply for disks, swap cables, etc... It seems more like a hardware problem at this point. Thanks. Well, it took me a few days, but I think I'm ready to report back.

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-23 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Pablo. Please apply common hardware debugging method. You know, swap drives. Use separate power supply for disks, swap cables, etc... It seems more like a hardware problem at this point. Thanks. Well, it took me a few days, but I think I'm ready to report back.

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Well, it took me a few days, but I think I'm ready to report back. One of the drives was failing, and it stopped after rewiring power supply so the last problem seems to be corrected. OTOH, your blacklist seems to be needed too, now I'm running FC6 distribution

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Pablo. Please apply common hardware debugging method. You know, swap drives. Use separate power supply for disks, swap cables, etc... It seems more like a hardware problem at this point. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-09 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-09 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-09 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Pablo. Please apply common hardware debugging method. You know, swap drives. Use separate power supply for disks, swap cables, etc... It seems more like a hardware problem at this point. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-08 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off NCQ by doing the following. #

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-08 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off NCQ by doing the following. #

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off NCQ by doing the following. # echo 1 >

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-07 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: > After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty > sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off NCQ by doing the following. # echo 1 >

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-07 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off NCQ by doing the following. # echo 1

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: After an uptime of 13:34 under heavy load and no errors, I'm pretty sure your patch is correct. Is there a way to backport this to 2.6.18.x? I forgot this (even though I implemented it) but you can turn off NCQ by doing the following. # echo 1

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-04 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: By crash I mean the whole system going down, having to reset the entire machine. I'm sending you 4 files: dmesg: current boot dmesg, just a boot, because no errors appeared after last crash, since the server is out

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-04 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: By crash I mean the whole system going down, having to reset the entire machine. I'm sending you 4 files: dmesg: current boot dmesg, just a boot, because no errors appeared after last crash, since the server is out of production right now (errors

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-04 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: By crash I mean the whole system going down, having to reset the entire machine. I'm sending you 4 files: dmesg: current boot dmesg, just a boot, because no errors appeared after last crash, since the server is out of production right now (errors

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-04 Thread Pablo Sebastian Greco
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: By crash I mean the whole system going down, having to reset the entire machine. I'm sending you 4 files: dmesg: current boot dmesg, just a boot, because no errors appeared after last crash, since the server is out

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: > By crash I mean the whole system going down, having to reset the entire > machine. > I'm sending you 4 files: > dmesg: current boot dmesg, just a boot, because no errors appeared after > last crash, since the server is out of production right now (errors > usually

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: > First of all, thanks for everything, and my excuses if I'm doing > anything wrong, this is my first lkml mail, but I've read all the faq, > so should be OK. > This is the machine with the problem: > > Intel ServerBoard S5000VSA > Dual Core Xeon 2.66 (Intel(R)

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: First of all, thanks for everything, and my excuses if I'm doing anything wrong, this is my first lkml mail, but I've read all the faq, so should be OK. This is the machine with the problem: Intel ServerBoard S5000VSA Dual Core Xeon 2.66 (Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU

Re: SATA problems

2007-01-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Pablo Sebastian Greco wrote: By crash I mean the whole system going down, having to reset the entire machine. I'm sending you 4 files: dmesg: current boot dmesg, just a boot, because no errors appeared after last crash, since the server is out of production right now (errors usually appear