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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] SATA messages
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:42:29
Message-Id: 4746C960.3090707@xunil.at
1 Greets, gentoo-users,
2
3 what about these msgs in dmesg?
4
5 I get some repetitions of this block:
6
7 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
8 ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data
9 123392 in
10 res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation)
11 ata1: soft resetting port
12 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
13 ata1: EH complete
14 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
15 ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data
16 123392 in
17 res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation)
18 ata1: soft resetting port
19 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
20 ata1: EH complete
21
22 ----
23
24 then this:
25
26 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
27 support DPO or FUA
28 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
29 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
30 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
31 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
32 support DPO or FUA
33
34
35 ----
36
37 After this no more SATA-related stuff in dmesg.
38
39 /dev/sda works OK so far, I just wonder if this points to any problem I
40 should take care of.
41
42 # cat /proc/version
43 Linux version 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 (root@mybox) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo
44 4.1.2 p1.0.2)) #3 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 22 09:45:37 CET 2007
45
46
47 It's a P4900M2 Mainboard from MSI
48
49 "lspci -v" shows this:
50
51 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5337 (rev
52 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
53 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
54 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
55 I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
56 I/O ports at d880 [size=4]
57 I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
58 I/O ports at d480 [size=4]
59 I/O ports at d400 [size=16]
60 I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
61 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
62
63 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
64 VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
65 (prog-if 8a [Master
66 SecP PriP])
67 Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255
68 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
69 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
70 [disabled] [size=8]
71 [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
72 [disabled] [size=1]
73 [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
74 [disabled] [size=8]
75 [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
76 [disabled] [size=1]
77 I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
78 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
79
80 No explicit SATA-controller mentioned here.
81
82 I use sata_via, should I disable it and use sata_ahci instead?
83 I read somewhere that newer VIA-SATA-controllers use AHCI, don't know if
84 mine is "newer".
85
86 Maybe I just compile another kernel with only AHCI-support to try that.
87
88 Thanks, Stefan
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