recommendations for a *stable* sata card
Dear all,
do you think the issue below will be resolved in the near future ? If not I would better buy a new sata stand-a-lone card which is known to work flawlessly (including error corrections) - which one ??
I upgraded (1 month ago) to using 2 sata disks (both seagate drives ST3400832AS and ST3750640AS) on this asus a7v8x on-board promise fastrak 376 (PDC20376) controller.
However, as soon as I do a lot of io (cp some
G of files, or dd if=/dev/sdx of=/dev/null reads) I get swamped in
ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError }
ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata2: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError }
...
messages. For that it is enough to do it on a single drive or copy from drive to drive. This is on kernel 2.6.18.1.
Can anyone translate these dubious error messages to me ?
Here are more details about the system:
- the sata_promise driver version 1.04 is used
- relevant dmesg output:
libata version 2.00 loaded.sata_promise 0000:00:08.0: version 1.04
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8820200 ctl 0xF8820238 bmdma 0x0 irq 17
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8820280 ctl 0xF88202B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 17 scsi0 : sata_promise
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_promise
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 1465149168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3400832AS Rev: 3.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3750640AS Rev: 3.AA Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: unknown partition table
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: unknown partition table
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 0 to 2ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 0 to 2
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 54359380 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 133 IO-APIC-edge i8042
4: 4917 IO-APIC-edge lirc_serial
8: 4 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
14: 1029875 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 39 IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 1033039 IO-APIC-level ide2
17: 215000 IO-APIC-level libata, ohci1394
18: 5424882 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4
19: 2288674 IO-APIC-level fcpci, eth0
20: 33358502 IO-APIC-level saa7146 (0), saa7146 (1)
21: 0 IO-APIC-level VIA8233
NMI: 54359509
LOC: 54356735
ERR: 0
MIS: 0# 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 0000:00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) 0000:00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02) 0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) 0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH A1 ISDN [Fritz] (rev 02) 0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller 0000:00:0f.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 04) 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01)
Thanks in advance,
Soeren
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Quoted 7 lines · Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear all,
do you think the issue below will be resolved in the near future ? If not I would better buy a new sata stand-a-lone card which is known to work flawlessly (including error corrections) - which one ??
For a stable / tested card see Tejun's reply
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/11760
Also see the status matrix at: http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix
FYI: Tejun Heo has been the primary author of the major Error Handling rewrite that was introduced into the vanilla kernel with 2.6.18.
Greg
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Quoted 11 lines · Greg Freemyer
On 10/22/06, Soeren Sonnenburg <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,do you think the issue below will be resolved in the near future ? If
not I would better buy a new sata stand-a-lone card which is known to
work flawlessly (including error corrections) - which one ??For a stable / tested card see Tejun's reply
Quoted 7 lines
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/11760
Also see the status matrix at:
http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrixFYI: Tejun Heo has been the primary author of the major Error Handling rewrite that was introduced into the vanilla kernel with 2.6.18.
So I purchased a dawicontrol 154 (Sil3114) plugged it into the last remaining pci slot. Although on the same irq as the promise controller it survived 2 days of torture without *any* trouble. The very same test done on a promise controller crashes this machine in minutes...
Simply don't use promise products if you need stability.
Soeren
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