Re: VIA SATA I/O errors

From: Ari Pollak (aripollak_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/19/04

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Date:	Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:38:20 -0500

    Just for the record (in case people see this in the archive and wonder
    what the solution was) - the drive has had a steadily shorter uptime
    over the past few days. When I re-ran WD diagnostics, it finally found a
    problem with the drive, so I'm going to be exchanging it and hopefully a
    new drive will fix the problem.

    Ari Pollak wrote:
    > Hi.
    > I have an Athlon64 machine running kernel 2.6.10-rc3 (but this problem
    > has happened on 2.6.9-ac7 as well) with a VIA VT6420 SATA controller.
    > Every few days (the problem is not chronologically consistent) and/or
    > when there's heavy disk usage, the main SATA disk (a Western Digital
    > model WDC WD1200JD-00G) will just completely stop responding to any I/O,
    > and a lot of SCSI error messages will be output to the console. After a
    > few instances of this happening (which requires a hard power-off, then
    > power-on.. just hitting the reset button causes the SATA controller not
    > to recognize the drive on boot), I finally managed to capture some of
    > the kernel messages, since somehow I could still read one of my log
    > files (cached in memory, I guess). The same set of errors just keep
    > repeating over and over. I also believe there was an ext3 error that
    > showed up on the console and not in the log, but I assume this is not an
    > ext3 problem anyway. The partial log file and the output of lspci -vvv
    > are attached. I have no idea whether this is a software or hardware
    > problem. Running Western Digital's diagnostics on the drive turned up no
    > errors. If anyone has seen this problem before and it turned out to be
    > hardware-related, I'd like to find out exactly which component is the
    > culprit.
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    > Ari

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