Re: Problem on SATA-disk with Promise SATAII 150 TX4 ("DriveReady SeekComplete Error")

From: Joerg Sommrey (jo_at_sommrey.de)
Date: 02/12/05

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    Date:	Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:51:11 +0100
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    Jeff Garzik wrote::
    >Johannes Resch wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> [please CC me on replies]
    >>
    >> I've got a box running 2.6.10 (with the patch[0] needed to support the
    >> Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller).
    >> This box has three software raid1 partitions mirrored on a SATA disk on
    >> the Promise controller and a disk on the mainboard IDE controller (VIA
    >> vt8235).
    >>
    >> Within 4 days running the raid1, I got those three errors pasted below,
    >> each marking the SATA-raidmember as faulty. After "raidhotremove" and
    >> "raidhotadd" the SATA-raidmember syncs again fine and works at least a
    >> day until it is marked as faulty again.
    >>
    >> Any pointers where I could look at to resolve this problem?
    >> The SATA drive is a new Seagate ST3250823AS.

    >I would change out your cables, and also make sure you are running
    >2.6.11-rc3-bk-latest, which includes all the SATAII patches and other fixes.

    I don't believe it has anything to do with cabling. 2.6.10-ac9 introduced
    some sata patches. I didn't check -ac9 and -ac10, but -ac11 and -ac12 are
    not usable on my box with exactly the same symptoms.

    -jo

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