SATA drive problems

Jaxon · 01-16-2005, 06:15 PM

I have two Seagate 200GB SATA drives on a Sil3112a controller (built onto motherboard).

Recently, I've been having some problems reading from the drives. I've ran Seagate's disk utilities (downloaded a 4MB .ISO and ran the full disk check) and it found nothing wrong with either disk, but "$ dmesg" shows the following:

Code:

ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
scsi3: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 03 ac d6 57 00 00 48 00 
ILI Current sdb: sense = 70 2d
ASC=4d ASCQ=c0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x2d 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x4d 0xc0 0x00 
0x00 0x00 0x00 
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 61658711
ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xF886E0C7
ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xF886E0C7
ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xF886E0C7
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x1
ata2: status=0xd8 { Busy }
scsi3: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 03 ac d6 58 00 00 47 00 
ILI Current sdb: sense = 70 2d
ASC=4d ASCQ=c0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x2d 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x4d 0xc0 0x00 
0x00 0x00 0x00 
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 61658712
ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port 0xF886E0C7
ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port 0xF886E0C7
ATA: abnormal status 0xD8 on port 0xF886E0C7
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x1
ata2: status=0xd8 { Busy }
scsi3: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 03 ac d6 59 00 00 46 00 
ILI Current sdb: sense = 70 2d

The above continues, increasing the sector by 1 until I hard reboot, as I can't restart normally.

As I'm still working out the ins/outs of this operating system, I'm not sure what I can do to track down the problem. Any help in any direction would be appreciated.

kuranosuke · 01-16-2005, 07:30 PM

Check the kernel mailing list, this is a known issue when Seagate SATA drives are coupled with a Silicon Image 3112/3114 controller. What you need to do is add your drive model (ex: ST3200822AS) to the blacklist in sata_sil.c (<kernel source top dir>/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c).
Look for the section with a listing of drives and MOD_15_QUIRK. Needless to say, this involves recompiling the sata_sil kernel module.

Jaxon · 01-16-2005, 10:51 PM

Excellent, much better to know that it is a documented problem than have that doubt that there might be something wrong with my drives.

Thanks for the speedy response.

hugle · 05-31-2006, 12:29 PM

I have downgraded to 2.6.12.2 from 2.6.16.17 and it works fine.

GodofPain · 05-31-2006, 02:08 PM

I am having the same problem but I do not have the Sil3112a controller I have the nVidia. It is an Asus A8N-VM MB with on board nVidia 1Gbps NIC. I cannot downgrade to 2.6.12 because it did not support my NIC.

I have two systems with the same motherboards and drives. One with a single Seagate 250GB SATA and kernel 2.6.15.1 never has a problem. The other with dual Seagate 300GB SATA and is constantly getting errors and freezing.

dmesg looks like this, I don't have the exact error
...
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x0
...

This repeats for pages and pages.

Okay so I just removed the second SATA drive and now I am not getting any errors. WTFIUWT!

The problem I am having seems to only affect the system when there is more then one SATA drive.