Re: SiI 3512 Serial ATA Controller - kernel 2.6.23

From: Dan Nica
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 05:48:31 EST


those errors apears only when I use the harddrives with
the sii controller and only when I make operation between
the onboard sata and the sii sata controller, operations between
ide and drives that are on sii works perfectly...

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Dan Nica wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > I have a problem with a serial ata controller
> > that uses a SiI 3512 chip.
>
> A complete dmesg, complete lspci would be helpful.
>
>
> > when I'm trying to add a device thats on the 3512 controller to the array
> > that I have, it give me lots of errors in dmesg
> > like this:
> >
> > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
> > ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8652001
> > ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:3f:5c:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680
> > out
> > res 51/04:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
>
> That's the device reporting an error, when the system issued a WRITE command
> ("cmd 35/....."), and the SiI controller is happily reporting that error to
> you.
>
> I would worry about the device, if it is reporting errors on WRITE.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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