Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, David Greaves wrote:

> David Greaves wrote:
>
> > Mark Lord wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > By the way, the latest 2.6.16-rc5-git4 is available,
> > > and has FUA turned off by default now.  So it should
> > > work with your drives, and *you* are expected to verify
> > > that for us all now.
> > Yeah, I know - I've got it on the machine... but it's my wife's machine.
> > I've asked nicely but she's editing a Hercule Poirot video so I'm not
> > allowed to reboot it for a while...
> >
> > I've told her I'm not making pancakes until I've tested it so expect a
> > report Real Soon Now...
> OK that worked (the pancakes - the kernel's not doing so well...)
>
> haze:~# uname -a
> Linux haze 2.6.16-rc5-git4 #2 PREEMPT Wed Mar 1 19:07:58 UTC 2006 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> The boot is pretty clean.
> I ran an xfs_repair -n on the lvm volume and got the following errors.
> The repair reported a clean filesystem and the drive was not booted from
> the raid so that's a big improvement.
>
> I was not able to trigger similar messages on ata1 but a simple dd
> doesn't trigger the messages on ata2 either (and for various reasons,
> xfs_repair wouldn't run on ata1 - I thought I'd leave it and report this
> first)
>
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>
> David
>
> --

As of 2.6.16-rc5-git4, I have written 281GB so far over a period of 48+ 
hours with no errors yet :)

Will keep you updated if I see any errors, but so far, so good!

Thanks,

Justin.
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