Re: sata_nv exceptions in 2.6.20.3

[Robert Hancock]

Christopher Mulcahy wrote:
> My harddrives are Seagate Barracudas ( 7200.10, 500GB, ST3500630AS )
>
> They have jumpers to toggle between 1.5Gb/s operation and 3.0Gb/s 
> operation.
>
> When jumpered to 1.5Gbs operation, there are no problems.
>
> Settings the drives to 3.0Gbs operation generates exceptions on only one 
> of the 4 drives, but this quickly leads to hard lock-up.  ( I don't see 
> a kernel crash-dump, but the system becomes frozen and has to be reset )
>
> The errors, lspci output, and dmesg from both 3G ( broken ) and 1.5G 
> (working) operation are as follows:

Tried a different SATA cable on that drive? The controller is reporting 
SError values and CMD errors, which likely tends to indicate some kind 
of SATA communication problem..

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