From: Michael T. Halligan (michael_at_halligan.org)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 00:49:34 CET
Message-Id: <2E10DFC0-B781-448B-B855-597A66574F52@halligan.org> From: "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:49:34 -0800 Subject: [suse-sles-e] BOUNTY Re: Nvidia SATA completely broken in SLES10 SP1 (HP DL145 G2 servers)
I will pay $250 to somebody who can conclusively solve this problem.
On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> Also, I have tried upgrading to the latest kernel, 2.6.16.53-0.16-
> smp and the probelm still exists. This happens both with the SMP and
> default kernels.
>
> On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
>
>> SLES10 SP1 seems to have a bug in it's sata drivers. There's no way
>> this is hardware, because when I downgrade the affected servers to
>> SLES10, the problem goes away.
>> This only affects SLES10 SP1, and this affects all DL145 G2s
>> running SLES10 SP1.
>>
>> The symptoms are that the servers will hang for about 30 seconds
>> every 10-20 minutes and spew out these errors to dmesg:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> sdb: Write Protect is off
>> sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
>> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>> ata2.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
>> res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>> ata2: soft resetting port
>> ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> ata2: EH complete
>> SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
>> sdb: Write Protect is off
>> sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
>> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>> ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
>> res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>> ata1: soft resetting port
>> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> ata1: EH complete
>> SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
>> sda: Write Protect is off
>> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
>> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>> ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
>> res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>> ata1: soft resetting port
>> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> ata1: EH complete
>> SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
>> sda: Write Protect is off
>> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
>> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>> ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
>> res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>> ata1: soft resetting port
>> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> ata1: EH complete
>> SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
>> sda: Write Protect is off
>> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
>>
>
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