linux-kernel - Re: SATA Cold Boot problems on >2.6.25 with NV

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Message-ID: <48B90F7F.8040308@kernel.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:14:39 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA Cold Boot problems on >2.6.25 with NV

Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> Am 2008-08-29 16:52 +0200 schrieb Tejun Heo:
> 
>>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/34077
> 
> I have this patch actually applied and had switched off the computer
> afterwards completely for more than one hour two times. Each time it
> booted then (this was the patch you suggested initially to Many Maxwell
> this month to this list).
> 
> Everything seems to work fine, but my dmesg and /var/log/messages is
> flooded with this now:
> 
> Aug 29 23:20:39 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:41 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:47 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:49 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:51 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:53 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:55 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:56 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:20:59 zappa ata1: EH complete
> Aug 29 23:21:01 zappa ata1: EH complete

Hmm... Can you post full dmesg output?  We used to see things like above
when ATAPI CHECK SENSE handling somehow failed to tell EH that it was an
exception not worth whining about.  Maybe EH action mask is not being
cleared properly?

> I am curious if it boots tomorrow after sleeping for one night :-P

I somehow feel pretty optimistic about that part.  :-)

-- 
tejun
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