Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264627AbUFSUT1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:19:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264650AbUFSUT1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:19:27 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:14045 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264627AbUFSUTY (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:19:24 -0400 Message-ID: <40D49FBC.7040900@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:19:08 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "R. J. Wysocki" , Ricky Beam CC: Eric Buddington , Linux Kernel Mail List Subject: Re: SATA 3112 errors on 2.6.7 References: <200406192210.05455.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200406192210.05455.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1616 Lines: 44 R. J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday 19 of June 2004 01:06, Ricky Beam wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote: >> >>>Are your drives out of Seagate, maybe? If not, what make are they? >> >>(As I said in a previous email...) 4 x Seagate ST3160023AS's RAID0'd >>together in a BIOS "raid" mode compatable manner. > > > Sorry, I should have noticed. > > Anyway, it looks like a pattern is forming which smells bad to me. > > Apparently, we have: > 1) A serious error condition that occurs on Seagate SATA drives connected to > Silicon Image controllers. > 2) As of today we can say that it only occurs on Seagate drives (Ricky, do I > remember correctly that you see faulty behavior of such drives with a 3ware > RAID?). > 3) The error is reported by the kernel like that: I wonder if it helps to add the Seagate drive to the sata_sil blacklist? /* TODO firmware versions should be added - eric */ struct sil_drivelist { const char * product; unsigned int quirk; } sil_blacklist [] = { { "ST320012AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, { "ST330013AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, { "ST340017AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, { "ST360015AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, { "ST380023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, { "ST3120023AS", SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE }, [...] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/