Re: 2.6.18.2: sporadic SATA port resets (Broadcom BCM5785 (HT1000))

From: Emmeran Seehuber <rototor@rototor.de>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18.2: sporadic SATA port resets (Broadcom BCM5785 (HT1000))
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:37:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702091237.24576.rototor@rototor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CC3C9C.3050101@gmail.com>

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Am Friday 09 February 2007 schrieb Tejun Heo:
> Hi,

>
> This is just the recovery part.  Need more log.  If possible, please
> give a shot at 2.6.20.  It might have fixed your problem or at least
> allow better diagnosis.
>

I´ll look into getting 2.6.20 on the machine. But it might take some time till 
we can do this.

> > Does somebody have a glue whats going on here? Could it be a hardware
> > failure?
>
> It might be.  Quite some SATA bug reports turn out to be hardware
> problem, most commonly PSU issues.

The power supply unit (you meant this with PSU, didn`t you?) has 800 Watt, so 
it should be powerfull enough for one harddisk and no graphics board.

> > Do you need additional information?
>
> Yeah, please post the content of /var/log/boot.msg if available and the
> result of dmesg and lspci -nn.

We don`t have a /var/log/boot.msg, but it seems the boot messages were saved 
in /var/log/dmesg, so I attached it.

Thanks for your effort.

cu,
  Emmy

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00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Broadcom HT1000 PCI/PCI-X bridge [1166:0036]
00:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom HT1000 Legacy South Bridge [1166:0205]
00:02.1 IDE interface [0101]: Broadcom HT1000 Legacy IDE controller [1166:0214]
00:02.2 ISA bridge [0601]: Broadcom HT1000 LPC Bridge [1166:0234]
00:03.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller [1166:0223] (rev 01)
00:03.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller [1166:0223] (rev 01)
00:03.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller [1166:0223] (rev 01)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:1076] (rev 05)
00:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:1076] (rev 05)
00:06.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: XGI - Xabre Graphics Inc Volari Z7 [18ca:0020]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
00:19.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:19.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:19.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:19.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Broadcom HT1000 PCI/PCI-X bridge [1166:0104] (rev c0)
01:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Broadcom BCM5785 (HT1000) SATA Native SATA Mode [1166:024a]

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