From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759449AbXGCLj5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:39:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757289AbXGCLjs (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:39:48 -0400 Received: from mail.electro-mechanical.com ([216.184.71.30]:58366 "EHLO mail.electro-mechanical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756013AbXGCLjr (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:39:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:39:45 -0400 From: William Thompson To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error in syslog on 2.6.20 Message-ID: <20070703113945.GK24385@electro-mechanical.com> References: <20070622184018.GA20301@electro-mechanical.com> <4689FA27.6040706@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4689FA27.6040706@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:26:31PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > William Thompson wrote: > > I'm not on either list, keep me in CC. > > > > I noticed the following error on a cdrom device: > > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 > > res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > > ata2: soft resetting port > > ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 > > ata2: EH complete > > > > This is the device when it was found: > > libata version 2.00 loaded. > > ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.00ac7 > > ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFFA0 irq 14 > > ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFFA8 irq 15 > > scsi0 : ata_piix > > ata1.00: ATA-4, max UDMA/66, 16514064 sectors: LBA > > ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 8 > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 > > scsi1 : ata_piix > > ata2.00: ATAPI, max MWDMA2 > > ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 > > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD84AA 05.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > > scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITEON CD-ROM LTN486S YQSM PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > > > > I have a program that does a scsi TEST UNIT READY on many devices once every > > .1 second. The problem occured when I ejected the cdrom and closed the tray > > again with valid media in the drive. My program noticed media removed and > > inserted, then said the device was dead/unpollable. This is when I saw this > > error. > > Your cd rom failed to complete the TUR command your program issued in > the specified timeout. ODDs sometimes take quite long to finish TUR or > any other command when media is changed. Did you use sg command or > cdrom ioctl? I'm using SG_IO. I also tested sg3-utils' sg_tur which gave me the same thing. Is it just a crappy cdrom? > Anyways, after timing out, libata EH kicked the cdrom in the ass and > world peace is restored. Ah, that's good.