linux-kernel - Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide

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Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:38:03 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Keenan Pepper" <keenanpepper@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide_generic works
 perfectly

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 00:32:12 -0500 "Keenan Pepper" <keenanpepper@...il.com> wrote:

> I just upgraded the kernel on my System76 Gazelle laptop (basically an
> ASUS Z62FP without the Microsoft tax) and the hard drive began
> freezing every few minutes. I blacklisted ata_piix and the problem
> went away, so that really narrows down where the bug has to be. Here's
> the relevant part of the dmesg:
> 
> [  924.000000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
> [  924.000000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
> cdb 0x25 data 8 in
> [  924.000000]          res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask
> 0x4 (timeout)
> [  931.004000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> [  954.028000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> [  954.028000] ata1: soft resetting port
> [  954.380000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [  954.560000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
> [  954.560000] ata1: EH complete

>From what version of the kernel did you upgrade?

It is very helpful for us to knwo the latest version which worked OK.

> Complete dmesg and lspci -vvx are attached; please CC me because I'm
> not subscribed. My sincere apologies if this is already fixed in the
> main kernel.

You're running 2.6.20-rc6.  This won't have been fixed.
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