Re: Multiple siI SATA cards and data corruption

["Hardy Garten" <mailingliste@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

have you ever considered bad S-ATA cables?

Lately I read in a forum about a very similar problem: freezes after
some time of operation and in case of a transfer of large files.
The problems were solved with some quality S-ATA cables that replaced
the originally provided cables of the card supplier.

You might guess it already: It was an SIL-No-Name-SATA-PCI-Card.

Sometimes it is not the software. Hardware can be buggy too.

Cheers
Hardy

2008/5/7, Twigathy <twigathy@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Kernel version 2.6.24-16-server with mdadm - v2.6.3 - 20th August
> 2007. In dmesg I'll see something like this:
>
> [  244.588897] ata11.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> [  244.591333] ata11.00: cmd c8/00:00:3f:11:04/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0
> dma 131072 in
> [  244.591335]          res 40/00:ff:ff:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00/ff Emask
> 0x4 (timeout)
> [  244.597121] ata11.00: status: { DRDY }
> [  244.928825] ata11: soft resetting link
> [  245.088814] ata11: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
> [  245.130057] ata11.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [  245.130080] ata11: EH complete
> [  245.137809] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors
> (500108 MB)
> [  245.138158] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
> [  245.138162] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [  245.138183] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>
> Obviously ports freezing isn't too good for raid and things go splat
> pretty quickly from there!
>
>
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