sata_nv OK in f10?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has seen problems with sata_nv
> driver on fedora 10?

Not in F10 (yet).

> I was downloading updates earlier, and my machine started
> freezing up and windows started disappearing. Typing reboot
> made it go into a 100% cpu state, so I eventually powered
> off and back on and things have been OK since then.
> 
> Naturally I also suspect the disk may be failing, but it is
> only a few months old, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else
> has had suspicious disk problems since going to f10.

Funny you should mention this.  My F8 server has sata_nv and its been 
running just fine, but the PATA side of things has been burning through 
hard drives.  My last IDE drive (17GB) is my oldest currently running 
(and is my boot drive) and has been getting SMART failures for just over 
a year now.  I'm waiting for it to fail and it hasn't yet.  I don't know 
if its the disk, the system's power supply, or the chipset.  But I 
*have* lost 2 other HDs in the same machine (120GB and 40GB), both while 
on the secondary IDE channel.  I figure I'll go SATA only when it does 
die.

> I found this gibberish in /var/log/message (no clue what it
> might mean :-)
> 
> Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x3980000 action 0x6 frozen
> Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1: SError: { 10B8B Dispar LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS }
> Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1.00: cmd 35/00:40:95:d3:42/00:02:1f:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 294912 out
> Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel:         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
> Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: ata1: EH complete
> Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
> Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> 
> I'll certainly keep a watch for additional errors (and make sure my
> nightly backups keep running OK :-).

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Kevin J. Cummings
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