Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide_generic worksperfectly

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Feb 04 2007 - 01:38:32 EST


On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 00:32:12 -0500 "Keenan Pepper" <keenanpepper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just upgraded the kernel on my System76 Gazelle laptop (basically an
> ASUS Z62FP without the Microsoft tax) and the hard drive began
> freezing every few minutes. I blacklisted ata_piix and the problem
> went away, so that really narrows down where the bug has to be. Here's
> the relevant part of the dmesg:
>
> [ 924.000000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> [ 924.000000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
> cdb 0x25 data 8 in
> [ 924.000000] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask
> 0x4 (timeout)
> [ 931.004000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> [ 954.028000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> [ 954.028000] ata1: soft resetting port
> [ 954.380000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [ 954.560000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
> [ 954.560000] ata1: EH complete

>From what version of the kernel did you upgrade?

It is very helpful for us to knwo the latest version which worked OK.

> Complete dmesg and lspci -vvx are attached; please CC me because I'm
> not subscribed. My sincere apologies if this is already fixed in the
> main kernel.

You're running 2.6.20-rc6. This won't have been fixed.
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