Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161107AbXALWH2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:07:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161117AbXALWH1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:07:27 -0500 Received: from mail.first.fraunhofer.de ([194.95.169.2]:56103 "EHLO mail.first.fraunhofer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161107AbXALWH0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:07:26 -0500 Subject: Re: SATA hotplug from the user side ? From: Soeren Sonnenburg To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <45A7BFB0.9090308@garzik.org> References: <1168588629.5403.7.camel@localhost> <45A7BFB0.9090308@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:07:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1168639639.3707.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4418 Lines: 112 On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:04 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'd like to try out SATA hotplugging using a SIL3114. Though I was > > harvesting the web, I could not find any useful information how this is > > done in practice. > > > > Well I realized that I can still use scsiadd to print and remove > > devices, e.g.: > > For SIL3114, you shouldn't have to run any commands at all. It should > notice when you yank the cable, or plug in a new device. It is true it detects a removal and newly plugged devices immediately... However it still prints warnings and errors that it could not synchronize SCSI cache for the disks. Then it prints regular 'rejects I/O to dead device' warning messages and on replugging the disks puts them to the next free sd device (e.g. sdc -> sdd). These messages sound eval - so now the question is should I care ? ( On the other hand it did not crash the machine ) What follows is a change between to sata drives attached to port 4/5 of the sil (ata5/ata6 here): ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10000 action 0x2 frozen ata6: hard resetting port ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata6: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10000 action 0x2 frozen ata5: hard resetting port ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata5: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata6: hard resetting port ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata6: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata5: hard resetting port ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata5: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata6: hard resetting port ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata6.00: disabled ata6: EH complete ata6.00: detaching (SCSI 5:0:0:0) Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdd: FAILED status = 0, message = 00, host = 4, driver = 00 <6>ata5: hard resetting port ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata5.00: disabled ata5: EH complete ata5.00: detaching (SCSI 4:0:0:0) Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdc: FAILED status = 0, message = 00, host = 4, driver = 00 <3>ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0x2 frozen ata6: hard resetting port ata6: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff) ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata6.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 1465149168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata6: EH complete scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3750640AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdf: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdf: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back sdf: unknown partition table sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 4:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 4:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0x2 frozen ata5: hard resetting port ata5: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff) ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata5.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 1465149168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3750640AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdg: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) sdg: Write Protect is off sdg: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdg: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) sdg: Write Protect is off sdg: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back sdg: unknown partition table sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdg sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Best, Soeren -- For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. 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