Re: 2.6.18.2: sporadic SATA port resets (Broadcom BCM5785 (HT1000))

[Tejun Heo]

Emmeran Seehuber wrote:
> > > Does somebody have a glue whats going on here? Could it be a hardware
> > > failure?
> > It might be.  Quite some SATA bug reports turn out to be hardware
> > problem, most commonly PSU issues.
>
> The power supply unit (you meant this with PSU, didn`t you?) has 800 Watt, so 
> it should be powerfull enough for one harddisk and no graphics board.

I see.

> > > Do you need additional information?
> > Yeah, please post the content of /var/log/boot.msg if available and the
> > result of dmesg and lspci -nn.
>
> We don`t have a /var/log/boot.msg, but it seems the boot messages were saved 
> in /var/log/dmesg, so I attached it.

Yeap, that's exactly what I wanted.  So, the driver is sata_svw and 
errors are timeouts for both reads and writes with BMDMA engine still 
running.  It looks like transmission errors to me.  Can you post the 
result of 'smartctl -a /dev/sdX'?

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tejun
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