Subject: Re: [vserver] Request: Help to a 2.6.22.14+vs2.2.05 and the libata patches which make PMP work
From: Mike O'Connor <vserver@pineview.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:54:00 +1030

Corey

Thanks so much for your help, I finished building the kernel last night
and installed it on an office test machine and it seems to be working
perfectly.

Corey Wright wrote:
> BEGIN SYSLOG
> Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action
0x2 frozen
> Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag
0 cdb 0x0 data 0
> Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
0x4 (timeout)
> Dec 20 13:59:30 host kernel: ata1: soft resetting port
> Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: ata1: EH complete
> Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors
(320073 MB)
> Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> Dec 20 13:59:31 host kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled,
doesn't support DPO or FUA
>
> END SYSLOG
>
>   
sacly :)
> i get about two errors (ATA bus error, timeout, device error) a
> week, spread evenly between two identical drives in a raid1 array.
>   

Did you give the kernel a try ? my system is working really well. Non of
the drives which I was having issues with are giving me any problems
since I started using these patch's.

Again Thanks
Mike