Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

G'day all, This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have posted about it before. The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded. I've jumpered the WD's to 1.5GB PHY speed (I had

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

Brad Campbell wrote: > G'day all, > > This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have > posted about it before. > The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB > WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded. > I've jumpered th

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

Tejun Heo wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: G'day all, This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have posted about it before. The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded. I've jumpe

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

Tejun Heo wrote: ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up [1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether errors persist on those drives. 2 separate tests with the 2

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

[cc'ing Mikael Pettersson] Brad Campbell wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a >> separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up >> [1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether >>

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:54:52 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >Brad Campbell wrote: >> Tejun Heo wrote: >> >>> ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a >>> separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up >>> [1], and connect some of the drives to the

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels

Mikael Pettersson wrote: The box was described as a KT600 chipset era machine with 3 Promise SATA150TX4 cards, a SIL3112 card, and an on-board VIA controller. According to the `lspci' posted the box probably also has an AGP card and at least one gigaether card (there's two, I guess one might be

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too

Brad Campbell wrote: G'day all, This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have posted about it before. The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded. Oh, I forgot, I still

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Brad Campbell wrote: http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both boxes). git-bisect shows up this commit as the guilty party. I can't just revert it on a recent tree though. Will investigate further. [E

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Brad Campbell wrote: > Brad Campbell wrote: > >> http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen >> shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both boxes). >> > > git-bisect shows up this commit as the guilty party. I can't just revert > it on a recent tree tho

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Tejun Heo wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both boxes). git-bisect shows up this commit as the guilty party. I can't just revert it on a recent tree

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Brad Campbell wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Brad Campbell wrote: >>> Brad Campbell wrote: >>> http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both boxes). >>> git-bisect shows up this commit as the gui

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Tejun Heo wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both boxes). git-bisect shows up this commit as the guilty party.

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Brad Campbell wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Brad Campbell wrote: >>> Tejun Heo wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: > Brad Campbell wrote: > >> http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen >> shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both >> bo

Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED

Tejun Heo wrote: Any attempt to spin down sdi-sdo in any order locks hard. Any attempt to spin down sda-sdh works in any combination/permutation. Hmmm... I'm out of ideas. It definitely sounds like some sort of hardware problem to me. I think the best way to diagnose the problem is playing th