On Friday, 19. January 2007 16:05, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 01:53, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Robert Hancock wrote: > > > I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run > > > into the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps > > > it's some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the > > > controller and that drive when running in ADMA mode? I seem to remember > > > various reports of issues with certain Maxtor drives and some nForce > > > SATA controllers under Windows at least.. > > > > Just to eliminate things, has disabling ADMA been attempted? > > > > It can be disabled using the sata_nv.adma module parameter. > > Setting this option fixes the problem for me. I suggest that ADMA defaults > off in 2.6.20, if there's still time to do that.
Not for me. I'm still have the same trouble, but less (maybe about every hour, instead of every 5 minutes). futhermore, I found a patch cocktail-2.6.20-rc3.patch: http://tinyurl.com/2gza8q, which improves the situation too! Now, the funny thing is that I've two SATA HDDs, but only 1 causes all the headaches. The affected drive is a: sda - @ata3.0 - WDC WD2500KS-00M 02.0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488395055 sectors: LBA48 "ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata3.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 out res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata3: soft resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133:PIO0 ata3: EH complete SCSI device sda: 488395055 512-byte hdwr sectors (250058 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00" the "good" HDD is a: sdb - @ata4.0 - WDC WD2500YD-01N 10.0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 490234752 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/1) System: AMD64 4200+ nForce 4 SLI 2 GB SMP PREEMPT kernel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
