Re: 2.6.20 SATA error

[Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:40:23 -0500 (EST)
> Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> wrote:
> 
> > hello, 
> > 
> > Can someone tell me what this means?
> > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400000 action 0x2 frozen
> > ata1.00: cmd 35/00:00:40:a6:23/00:04:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 
> > out
> >          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> > ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> > ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> > ata1: soft resetting port
> > ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> 
> I am fairly certain this is a bug in the 2.6.20 kernel.
> 
> I never see it in 2.6.19*, just 2.6.20.
> 
> It is some kind of but in the SATA code paths, or at least that's all it
> appears to affect on my system.
> 
> What chipset do you have?
> 
> I have an nforce4 chipset.
> 
> In another thread, I think they were saying it was either a SATA chipset
> driver bug, or a problem in libata core.

I also have an nforce4.

	Gerhard


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