Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754313AbYJ2S7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753270AbYJ2S73 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:29 -0400 Received: from smtp2.sensus.se ([193.13.139.17]:35052 "EHLO smtp2.sensus.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753004AbYJ2S72 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:59:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:58:56 +0100 From: Oskar Liljeblad To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard Message-ID: <20081029185856.GA8152@osk.mine.nu> References: <49079E09.20703@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49079E09.20703@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: -96.0 (---------------------------------------------------) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "smtp2.sensus.se", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 17:37, Robert Hancock wrote: [..] >> Hard drives (ata1/sda, ata2/sdb, ata3/sdc): Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB SATA [..] >> 19:24:26 ata2: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90a02 action 0xe frozen >> 19:24:26 ata2: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed >> 19:24:26 ata2: SError: { RecovComm Persist HostInt PHYRdyChg 10B8B } [..] > Sounds like the drive and the controller are unhappy with each other, or > there's some kind of communications or hardware problem. Not likely a > kernel issue. > > It's unclear if limiting to 1.5 Gbps would help, you could try it and see.. [...] Content analysis details: (-96.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -100 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's white-list 2.0 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [81.236.171.23 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.0 DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE RBL: Envelope sender in blackholes.securitysage.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1309 Lines: 31 On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 17:37, Robert Hancock wrote: [..] >> Hard drives (ata1/sda, ata2/sdb, ata3/sdc): Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB SATA [..] >> 19:24:26 ata2: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90a02 action 0xe frozen >> 19:24:26 ata2: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed >> 19:24:26 ata2: SError: { RecovComm Persist HostInt PHYRdyChg 10B8B } [..] > Sounds like the drive and the controller are unhappy with each other, or > there's some kind of communications or hardware problem. Not likely a > kernel issue. > > It's unclear if limiting to 1.5 Gbps would help, you could try it and see.. It seems the solution is to disable write caching. So far no errors, and other people confirm this solution. Anyway Seagate (inofficially) claims it's a driver issue in Linux - from http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=2390&view=by_date_ascending&page=6 "We already know about the Linux issue, it is indeed a kernel error causing the problem as it was explained to me by one of our developers." Regards, Oskar -- 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/