Re: Debugging I/O errors?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

Can anyone help me out how to debug this further, please?

On 20. okt. 2006, at 12.06, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Stresstesting a SATA drive+controller, I get the error below after  
> a while. How can I find if this error is due to a controller  
> failure, a bad driver, or a drive failure?
>
> thanks for all help
>
> system info below
>
> roy
> -----
> Running an unpatched 2.6.18.1
>
> This is a SIS controller:
> 01:03.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/ 
> SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 SATARaid Controller
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-  
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium  
> >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>         Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at d480 [size=4]
>         Region 2: I/O ports at d400 [size=8]
>         Region 3: I/O ports at d080 [size=4]
>         Region 4: I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
>         Region 5: Memory at ff8efc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)  
> [size=1K]
>         Expansion ROM at c6a00000 [disabled] [size=512K]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME 
> (D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
>
> The drive is a seagate 400gig thing (dunno how I can find what),  
> libata is alone at IRQ10.
>
> /var/log/kern.log output
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140273
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: Aborting journal on device sda1.
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_ordered_writepage: IO failure
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_ordered_writepage: IO failure
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: ext3_abort called.
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_ordered_writepage: IO failure
> Oct 19 18:32:04 ganske last message repeated 2 times
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: 0843
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140844
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140845
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140847
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140848
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140851
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140855
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140857
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140860
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140863
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140864
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140867
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140868
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140870
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140871
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140873
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140875
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140879
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140883
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140884
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140886
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140887
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140889
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140891
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140892
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140893
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140895
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140896
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140898
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140899
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140902
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140903
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1):  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 35140904
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: Journal has aborted
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_truncate: Journal has aborted
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in  
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske kernel: __journal_remove_journal_head:  
> freeing b_committed_data
> Oct 19 18:32:08 ganske last message repeated 219 times
> ganske:~#
>
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> roy@karlsbakk.net
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