Sata hdd on Silicon Image controller errors
 

Hi,

I've just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB hdd, along with a PCI Silicon Image controller card. I have compiled a new 2.6.8.1 kernel with support for sata and SII controllers, and the drive is recognized. However, when copying large files from my Windows 2000 Server to the Linux server via Samba I have been getting strange console errors which make the system crash:

ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x1
scsi: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x2a 00 0d 95 b9 9c 00 04 00 00
current sdb: sense = 70 3
ASC= c ASCQ= 2
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x0c 0x02
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 227916204
ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE181B087
ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE181B087
ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE181B087

Between these errors the system works fine.

Does anyone have any advice? Is it a kernel bug?

Thanks