Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754689AbXFNRdf (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:33:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752377AbXFNRdZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:33:25 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47656 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbXFNRdY (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:33:24 -0400 Message-ID: <46717BE2.3000703@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:33:22 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nigel Kukard CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list Subject: Re: SATA problems References: <8vX5T-4hg-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <8w0n1-15u-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <467173C4.1050500@lbsd.net> In-Reply-To: <467173C4.1050500@lbsd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2094 Lines: 56 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 >>> ca/00:18:87:e7:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 12288 out >>> Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: res >>> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) >>> Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2: soft resetting port >>> 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 >>> Jun 14 07:56:22 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) >>> Jun 14 07:56:22 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: failed to set xfermode >>> (err_mask=0x4) >> Try 2.6.22-rc4-gitX... > Is there a patch in particular I can maybe apply? I see you made a > couple of commits ... my problem is this is also happening on one of my > production boxes which has a few other patches applied, I'm a bit scared > of conflicts ... I don't really want to break anything by upgrading the > kernel. The two most relevant git commits: commit 51b94d2a5a90d4800e74d7348bcde098a28f4fb3 Author: Tejun Heo Date: Fri Jun 8 13:46:55 2007 -0700 sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands commit 464cf177df7727efcc5506322fc5d0c8b896f545 Author: Tejun Heo Date: Sun May 27 15:10:40 2007 +0200 libata: always use polling SETXFER If you have a git tree local to you, "git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT" will extract a patch, otherwise click "raw" after surfing to http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=$COMMIT Regards, Jeff - 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/