Re: AHCI exception, ext3 journal aborted on a VIA K8M890 / VT8251

From: Stephen Evanchik
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 15:52:35 EST


n 4/2/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stephen Evanchik wrote:
> My hardware components are the following:
>
> Motherboard: A8V-VM Socket 939 VIA K8M890 / VT8251
> CPU: Opteron 165 dual core
> Harddisk: SATA 1.5Gbps WD 160GB drive
>
> Most relevant snippet from dmesg, (you can see a longer version below):
>
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:c5:b6:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096
> out
> res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> ata1: soft resetting port
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
> ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
> ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x104)
> ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
> ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
> ata1: hard resetting port
>

I have tested 2.6.20, 2.6.20.5, 2.6.21-rc5 and all exhibit the same behavior.


We are testing fixes, but can only build test kernels for FC6. I think
this may be fixed by patches I submitted for 2.6.20.5.


I still see the above problem from 2.6.19-rc1 to 2.6.21-rc5.


Stephen
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