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Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:11:30 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libATA SATA errors on DVD bad sectors...

(cc: linux-ide added)

=?UTF-8?Q?Maciej_=C5=BBenczykowski?= writes:
 > I'm getting the following on bad sectors on a pretty badly scratched DVD:
 > 
 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel: ata12.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
 > SErr 0x0 action 0x6
 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel: ata12.00: port_status 0x20280000

Later you write that ata12 connects to a Promise SATA300 TX4.
In that case, port_status 0x20280000 means:
- Overrun Error
- Drive Error
- Packet Command Cycle
which means that the drive set its error status flag and raised an interrupt
which prematurely terminated a data transfer.

 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel: ata12.00: cmd
 > a0/01:00:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2048 in
 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel:         cdb a8 00 00 16 02 6c 00 00  00
 > 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel:         res
 > 51/30:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel: ata12.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
 > Sep 21 20:23:20 zeus kernel: ata12: hard resetting link
 > Sep 21 20:23:21 zeus kernel: ata12: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113
 > SControl 300)
 > Sep 21 20:23:21 zeus kernel: ata12.00: configured for UDMA/100
 > Sep 21 20:23:21 zeus kernel: ata12: EH complete
 > 
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel: ata12.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
 > SErr 0x0 action 0x6
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel: ata12.00: port_status 0x20280000
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel: ata12.00: cmd
 > a0/01:00:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2048 in
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel:         cdb a8 00 00 16 02 6d 00 00  00
 > 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel:         res
 > 51/30:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel: ata12.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel: ata12: hard resetting link
 > Sep 21 20:23:24 zeus kernel: ata12: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113
 > SControl 300)
 > Sep 21 20:23:25 zeus kernel: ata12.00: configured for UDMA/100
 > Sep 21 20:23:25 zeus kernel: ata12: EH complete
 > 
 > The command being run is:
 > sg_dd blk_sgio=1 bpt=1 bs=2048 cdbsz=12 coe=0 coe_limit=0 if=/dev/srX
 > odir of=badsector.bin count=1 skip=$i
 > 
 > on a Fedora 11 box:
 > Linux zeus 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 27 21:39:52 EDT 2009
 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 > 
 > These only seem to show up when the DVD is inserted into /dev/sr1.
 > /dev/sr0 doesn't seem to spew this crap (although both drives fail to
 > read the sector).
 > 
 > /sys/block/sr0 ->
 > ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sr0
 > /sys/block/sr1 ->
 > ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:09.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0/block/sr1
 > 
 > ata1.00: HL-DT-ST BD-RE GGW-H20L YL05 UDMA/133
 > ata12.00: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L BL06 UDMA/100
 > 
 > # lspci [-n] | egrep '1e.0|1f.2|3:09'
 > 00:1f.2 0106: 8086:2922 SATA controller: Intel Corporation
 > 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
 > 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
 > 03:09.0 0180: 105a:3d17 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology,
 > Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02)
 > 
 > ie. the Lite-On drive on the promise TX4 controller has issues, while
 > the LG on the intel AHCI controller seems fine...

The obvious next experiment would be to swap the drives and see how
the Lite-On behaves on the ICH9 and the LG behaves on the TX4.

 > Would it make sense to add this somewhere into the code as a 'bad
 > sector' error condition and not perform a hard reset?

The sata_promise driver upon seeing the port_status above sets
AC_ERR_HSM and AC_ERR_DEV, and performs a soft reset. Apparently
libata-eh follows up with a hard(er) reset, which doesn't surprise
me given the HSM and DEV errors.

 > It may be worth pointing out that the LiteOn drive is significantly
 > faster in dealing with the bad sectors, and actually successfully
 > reads a far larger number of them (about 15% of the sectors that the
 > LG can't read, the Lite-On can, and in about 2/3 of the time).  I
 > would guess that if it didn't have to hard reset the bus, it'd be even
 > faster...

So things actually work Ok with the Lite-On on the TX4, and you're mainly
concerned about log messages and potential performance loss?

/Mikael
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