Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752119AbXBDGiQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 01:38:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752127AbXBDGiQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 01:38:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:60154 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752119AbXBDGiQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 01:38:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:38:03 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Keenan Pepper" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide_generic works perfectly Message-Id: <20070203223803.89c969ed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <767314830702032132m4172ddfbmb2519ad90e7ae578@mail.gmail.com> References: <767314830702032132m4172ddfbmb2519ad90e7ae578@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1570 Lines: 34 On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 00:32:12 -0500 "Keenan Pepper" wrote: > I just upgraded the kernel on my System76 Gazelle laptop (basically an > ASUS Z62FP without the Microsoft tax) and the hard drive began > freezing every few minutes. I blacklisted ata_piix and the problem > went away, so that really narrows down where the bug has to be. Here's > the relevant part of the dmesg: > > [ 924.000000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > [ 924.000000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 > cdb 0x25 data 8 in > [ 924.000000] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask > 0x4 (timeout) > [ 931.004000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) > [ 954.028000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) > [ 954.028000] ata1: soft resetting port > [ 954.380000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > [ 954.560000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 > [ 954.560000] ata1: EH complete >From what version of the kernel did you upgrade? It is very helpful for us to knwo the latest version which worked OK. > Complete dmesg and lspci -vvx are attached; please CC me because I'm > not subscribed. My sincere apologies if this is already fixed in the > main kernel. You're running 2.6.20-rc6. This won't have been fixed. - 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/