Re: Problem on SATA-disk with Promise SATAII 150 TX4 ("DriveReady SeekComplete Error")

[Joerg Sommrey]

Jeff Garzik wrote::
>Johannes Resch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> [please CC me on replies]
>> 
>> I've got a box running 2.6.10 (with the patch[0] needed to support the 
>> Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller).
>> This box has three software raid1 partitions mirrored on a SATA disk on 
>> the Promise controller and a disk on the mainboard IDE controller (VIA 
>> vt8235).
>> 
>> Within 4 days running the raid1, I got those three errors pasted below, 
>> each marking the SATA-raidmember as faulty. After "raidhotremove" and 
>> "raidhotadd" the SATA-raidmember syncs again fine and works at least a 
>> day until it is marked as faulty again.
>> 
>> Any pointers where I could look at to resolve this problem?
>> The SATA drive is a new Seagate ST3250823AS.

>I would change out your cables, and also make sure you are running 
>2.6.11-rc3-bk-latest, which includes all the SATAII patches and other fixes.

I don't believe it has anything to do with cabling.  2.6.10-ac9 introduced
some sata patches.  I didn't check -ac9 and -ac10, but -ac11 and -ac12 are
not usable on my box with exactly the same symptoms.

-jo
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