[suse-sles-e] Re: Nvidia SATA completely broken in SLES10 SP1 (HP DL145 G2 servers)

From: Michael T. Halligan (michael_at_halligan.org)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 00:42:51 CET 

Message-Id: <3A245379-5284-49AF-BED0-663F8D7E7100@halligan.org>
From: "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:42:51 -0800
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Re: Nvidia SATA completely broken in SLES10 SP1 (HP DL145 G2 servers)

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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