From: John Lash <jlash@speakeasy.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: dma errors with sata_sil and Seagate disk
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:50:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041201115045.3ab20e03@homer.sarvega.com> (raw)
I'm using the sata_sil driver on a Tyan 2885. It has onboard Silicon Image 3114
SATA interfaces. There's one disk connected now, a Seagate ST380013AS. I've been
seeing persistent problems with errors (DriveStatusError) on the device. It
seems to happen pretty quickly under a load (trying to copy a couple of GB of
files to the disk).
I noticed that the sil_blacklist had quite a few Seagate entries and on
searching the web, found that these were dma problems that looked pretty similar
to mine. Since then I've added this model number to the sil_blacklist table,
rebuilt and rebooted. Now it's stable (just copied 20 GB of data to it). Is this
another problematic drive? Or am I masking the original problem?
I see the problem consistently on 2.6.8.1, 2.6.9, and 2.6.10-rc2-bk13. Also saw
the problems when I tried this on an older AMD MP system with a SI 3112 PCI
controller card.
I don't see any indication that Seagate has released any public firmware
upgrades for this drive. Anybody have a suggestion?
--john
next reply other threads:[~2004-12-01 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-01 17:50 John Lash [this message]
2004-12-01 23:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-02 4:28 ` John Lash
2004-12-02 10:01 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-12-02 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-03 1:14 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-12-03 4:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-12-03 4:19 ` John Lash
2004-12-03 4:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-12-25 21:02 raz0
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