Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

[Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>]

Hi there,

I get very different symptoms indeed. My drive isn't in the  
blacklist, and adding it has little effect (status 0xd9 to 0xd8, no  
other differences). Once the controller hangs, I can't even kill dd  
or login at a different terminal, just a complete lockup. If I have 2  
drives plugged in, running the dd on one of them also hangs the  
other, thus I suspect the controller. Also, reading via dd is fine,  
only writing has trouble.

Chris

On 12 Aug 2005, at 16:19, Roger Heflin wrote:

> With the Segate sata's I worked with before, I had to
> actually remove them from the blacklist, this was a couple
> of months ago with the native sata seagate disks.
>
> With the drive in the blacklist the drive worked right
> under light conditions, but under a dd read from the boot
> seagate the entire machine appeared to block on any io
> going to that disk, it did not stop (verified by vmstat),
> but I could never get the 55-60MiB/second expected, and
> was getting around 15MiB/second, with enormous amounts
> of interrupts, after removing it from the blacklist,
> I got the 55-60MiB/second rate, and the interrupts were
> much more reasonable, and the response of the system
> was actually useable.    When the lockup occurred, stopping
> the dd resulting in all things unlocking and continuing
> on, I duplicated this several times with the latest kernel
> at the time.
>
>                    Roger
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Chris Boot
> > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:55 PM
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate
> > drives and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for
> > the 2 drives my motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how
> > hard I try, I can't get the hard drives to work: they are
> > detected correctly and work reasonably well under _very_
> > light load, but anything like building a RAID array is a bit
> > much and the whole controller seems to lock up.
> >
> > I've tried adding the drive to the blacklist in the
> > sata_sil.c driver and I still have the same trouble: as you
> > can see the messages below relate to my patched kernel with
> > the blacklist fix. I've seen that this was discussed just
> > yesterday, but that seemed to give nothing:
> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/0310.html
> >
> > Ready and willing to hack my kernel to pieces; this machine
> > is no use until I get all the drives working! Needless to say
> > the drives connected to the on-board VIA controller work
> > fine, as do the drives currently on the SiI controller if I
> > swap them around.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA
> > Chris
> >
> > The following messages are sent to the log when everything goes mad:
> >
> > ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x0
> > ata1: status=0xd8 { Busy }
> > SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x80000002
> > sda: Current: sense key=0xb
> > ASC=0x47 ASCQ=0x0
> > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 2990370
> > ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port E0802087
> > ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port E0802087
> > ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port E0802087 [ the above is
> > transcribed so may not be 100% accurate ]
> >
> > Dmesg log during boot (and detection):
> >
> > Aug 11 21:47:05 arcadia Linux version 2.6.12-gentoo-r6
> > (root@arcadia.bootc.net) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo
> > 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Thu
> > Aug 11 20:19:00 BST 2005 ...
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia sata_sil version 0.9 Aug 11 17:30:12
> > arcadia ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
> > low) -> IRQ 177 Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: SATA max
> > UDMA/100 cmd 0xE0802080 ctl 0xE080208A bmdma 0xE0802000 irq
> > 177 Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd
> > 0xE08020C0 ctl 0xE08020CA bmdma 0xE0802008 irq 177 Aug 11
> > 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01
> > 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168
> > sectors: lba48
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1(0): applying Seagate errata fix
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia scsi0 : sata_sil Aug 11 17:30:12
> > arcadia ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01
> > 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168
> > sectors: lba48
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2(0): applying Seagate errata fix
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia scsi1 : sata_sil
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3250823AS
> > Rev: 3.03
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Type:   Direct-Access
> > ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3250823AS
> > Rev: 3.03
> > Aug 11 17:30:12 arcadia Type:   Direct-Access
> > ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> >
> > lspci:
> >
> > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377
> > [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA
> > Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 0000:00:0a.0 Unknown
> > mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI
> > 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
> > 0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems (former Lucent
> > Microelectronics) FW323 (rev 61)
> > 0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA
> > VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
> > 0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT82C586A/B/ VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev
> > 06) 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> > 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx
> > UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> > 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx
> > UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> > 0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx
> > UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
> > 0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
> > (rev 86) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
> > 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
> > 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible
> > controller: nVidia Corporation NV11
> > [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> > --
> > Chris Boot
> > bootc@bootc.net
> > http://www.bootc.net/
> >
> >
> >
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