Gabriele Tozzi <gabriele.tozzi <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hello, > > I got a Promise TX4 SATA 300 Controller with 3 SAMSUNG HD400LJ SATA 300 > disks (sdc, sdd, sde), the disks runs under a software raid5 with Luks > (Cryptography layer) and Lvm2. > > The disks works well and there is no data loss, but i'm continuously and > always getting worrisome error messages and poor performance (with brief > system jams) when i perform writing operations to disks. Reading data > works well and seems to give no error messages. > > I've checked cables and power supply and i've tryied swapping > controller's pci slot and playing with bios irq setting. None of them > changed the results, so i'm assuming the presence of a kernel bug. I'm > sorry if i'm getting wrong and then wasting your time. > > My kernel version: > Linux version 2.6.21.5 (root <at> transylvania) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070601 > (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 15 20:25:41 CEST 2007 > > This presumed bug was present on linux 2.60.20.7 too. > > On kernel 2.6.18.1 the bug was present, but with different error > messages, the messages were identical to those reported by another user > on this mail: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/198 > > I got an Asus CUV4X-D motherboard with two PIII 800Mhz CPUS, this is my > home server :) >
Everyone seems to be having problems with the Promise SATA300 TX4. I have an almost identical setup: SATA300 TX4 with 3 Samsung 400GB drives, and I get very similar errors. In 2.6.20 my card would soft restart all the way down to PIO mode and kill my performance. In 2.6.22-rc5 it will hard reset from 3.0 Gb/s to 1.5 Gb/s and operate relatively stable until heavy I/O. If anyone reading these threads (there have been quite a few in various places, see 'sata_promise error handling just a few hours ago) needs any additional information to help solve this problem, please let me know. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
