Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

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Gerhard Mack wrote:
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Gerhard Mack wrote:
May  9 14:51:35 mgerhard kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr
0x1800000 action 0x2 frozen
May  9 14:51:35 mgerhard kernel: ata1.00: cmd
35/00:00:80:6d:c8/00:04:09:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 out
May  9 14:51:35 mgerhard kernel:          res
40/00:c8:68:65:c8/84:00:09:00:00/e0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May  9 14:51:42 mgerhard kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond, please be
patient (Status 0xd0)

Anything I can do to figgure out what's causing this?

You're showing various flags set in the SError register, which suggests you're having SATA communication problems with the drive. A bad SATA cable or power problems would be a strong possibility.

It really would be nice if we decoded these things more usefully for the user (same with the regular ATA errors, like drivers/ide does), but in general SError showing up as non-zero is a bad thing:

0x400000 = "Handshake error: When set to one, this bit indicates that one or more R_ERR handshake response was received in response to frame transmission. Such errors may be the result of a CRC error detected by the recipient, a disparity or 10b/8b decoding error, or other error condition leading to a negative handshake on a transmitted frame."

0x1800000 = "Link Sequence Error: When set to one, this bit indicates that one or more Link state machine error conditions was encountered since the last time this bit was cleared. The Link Layer state machine defines the conditions under which the link layer detects an erroneous transition."

and

"Transport state transition error: When set to one, this bit indicates that an error has occurred in the transition from one state to another within the Transport layer since the last time this bit was cleared."

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