Re: Error with Sil3112A SATA controller and Maxtor 300GB HDD

From: Manuel Lauss (mano_at_roarinelk.homelinux.net)
Date: 03/12/05

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    Date:	Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:22:23 +0100
To: Guido Villa <piribillo@yahoo.it>

    Hi,

    Guido Villa wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I have an error as described in subject.
    > I couldn't find a previous report for this kind of error, so maybe you are
    > interested in it.
    >
    > Motherboard: ASUS TUV4X, BIOS rev. 1005
    > SATA controller: Silicon Image 3112A, bios rev. 4.2.50
    > Hard disk: Maxtor Maxtor 6B300S0 (300GB, SATA)
    >
    > This is the only HDD attached to the controller. It is not the boot device,
    > I have other HDDs on the IDE channels, but I don't think it matters.

    I happen to have a SiI 3112A controller and a Maxtor 6B300S0 attached to
    it, formatted with ext2. Never had any problems. I just copied
    200GB of data to it, worked flawlessly. (Vanilla 2.6.11)
    Maybe its the Motherboard?

    > Kernels: 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11.2
    > I also patched the 2.6.11.2 by adding this Maxtor disk to the sata_sil.c
    > blacklist (once with the SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE and once with the
    > SIL_QUIRK_UDMA5MAX), but the behaviour did not change.
    >
    > Problem:
    > I create a single partition on the hard disk, I format it with ext2, I mount
    > it, I begin writing onto the partition. After seconds (or minutes) of
    > copying, I get this error:
    >
    > EXT2-fs error (device sda1): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone
    > - block = 22413316
    >
    > I have also tried with ext3, in this case it prints more error messages:
    >
    > EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone
    > - block = 61997060
    > Aborting journal on device sda1.
    > EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_prepare_write: Journal has aborted
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data
    > __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_frozen_data
    > ext3_abort called.
    > EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
    > Remounting filesystem read-only
    > EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted 

    -- 
  Manuel Lauss
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