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CrimsonScythe
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 Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject: Silicon Image 3114 + 3 drives = problem |
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I have a DFI NFII Ultra B motherboard and have three of my drives hooked up to the onboard Silicon Image 3114 "raid" controller, but it doesn't quite work. I haven't set up any of the Silicon Image raids on the drives, but I will use the controller as a regular controller (JBOD) and run software raid5 on the drives. The first two drives work just fine, but when I ran cfdisk on the last one, cfdisk hung on disk level. After a little snooping in dmesg, I found this:
| Code: | sata_sil version 0.53
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF89C8080 ctl 0xF89C808A bmdma 0xF89C8000 irq 10
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF89C80C0 ctl 0xF89C80CA bmdma 0xF89C8008 irq 10
ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF89C8280 ctl 0xF89C828A bmdma 0xF89C8200 irq 10
ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF89C82C0 ctl 0xF89C82CA bmdma 0xF89C8208 irq 10
ata5: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:203f
ata5: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 488397168 sectors (lba48)
ata5: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi6 : sata_sil
ata6: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:203f
ata6: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 488397168 sectors (lba48)
ata6: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi7 : sata_sil
ata7: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:203f
ata7: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 488397168 sectors (lba48)
ata7: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi8 : sata_sil
ata8: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata8: thread exiting
scsi9 : sata_sil
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JB-00E Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdc: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JB-32F Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdd: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JB-55E Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sde: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sde: drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host8/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>ata7: DMA timeout, stat 0x4
unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sde at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg4 at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 |
If you notice, you can see that the third drive has a DMA problem. I tried to google for this error message, but all I found was a thread from January where they didn't find a solution. Being that I use the 2.6.5-rc1-mm1 kernel, I assume that I have the latest "official" sata_sil driver.
Have anyone else had this problem?
Also, I noticed from the two working drives that smartctl doesn't work. (I'm using the HighPoint Rockethead 100 on regular pata drives.) Should smartctl work? Anyone tried to check that?
I hope someone here have an answer for me 
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gabe-kai
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Location: Michigan, USA
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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If you are getting a DMA timeout that is indicative of a bad drive. Of course I would start with the standard troubleshooting methods of plugging the drive into a different slot on the chain, and seeing if it gets the same error, may be the cable or the controller. Of course, depending on your raid mode you may not want to try this.
I'm afraid that is my only suggestion. Sorry.
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bungernut
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:04 am Post subject: how are things going? |
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I was just wondering if there was an update on your status, this post almost directly affects a system I am going to build.
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CrimsonScythe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: |
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The errors went away as the drivers matured. Now there are no more problems, so you can safely buy a Silicon Image 3114 based system 
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