Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:08:20 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Serial ATA (sii3512a) support |
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Stephen Atkins wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm just wondering what the status is for the Silicon > Image 3512a serial ata support is.
Pretty good actually.
> I was using gentoo-sources 2.6.12 my Seagate drives worked fine. I'm > now running a gentoo-sources 2.6.15-r1 and support has broken. The same > thing with gentoo-sources 2.6.17-r8. I've added my drives to the > sata_sil.c black list (one of them was missing) but I still get > "Abnormal status 0x58 on port ..." errors. Which essentially crashes my > machine.
That looks like transmission failure and to me it doesn't seem to be a driver problem and please don't add your drive to sata_sil blacklist. The blacklist is for very specific cases and won't fix your problem other than sometimes hiding the real problem by slowing things down a lot.
When does such error occur? Is it reproducible? How often does it occur?
> Unfortunately I don't have the 2.6.12 kernel from Gentoo any more as I > did a emerge --sync and it got rid of it. Also some of the other > drivers I'm using need more recent kernel versions. > > Just some notes on my MB/chipsets. I've got a Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro2 > with an nForce2 chipset. It has a on board SATA which the manual says > is a Sil3112 but the bios reports it as a Sil3512a. I've got a single 6 > gig IDE as my boot device and root dir. There are also two SATA drives > both are Seagates. One is a ST3250823AS (250 gigs) and a ST3120026AS > (120 gigs). I know the Seagate drives have some issues and hence the > black list. > > Just wondering if there is anything I can do to make these things work > in some of the latest kernels. Thanks for you help.
Can you give a shot at 2.6.18? It contains improved EH which should be able to recover from the condition you described.
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