Bug 176107
Summary: | sata-nv crashes on multiple SATA disks | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Frank Bures <fbures> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | jasone, jbaron, linville, peterm |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0575 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2006-08-10 21:46:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 181409 |
Description
Frank Bures
2005-12-19 14:45:29 UTC
Just an addition to eliminate HW considerations: I installed WinXP64 on one disk of the said machine and then proceeded to long format three remaining SATA disk simultaneously. There were no problems. That would suggest that the problem is indeed inherent to Linux. I'm seeing the same errors, but with a different HDD layout. Hardware: Tyan S2895 (BIOS v1.02), dual Opteron 275, 3 SATA HDDs (150 GB, 150 GB, 400 GB). Installation of RHEL WS 4 x86_64 update 2 proceeds without apparent issues. '/' is on sda1, '/home' is sda2, '/space' is sda3. During first boot, initialization gets as far as xfs, then hangs. Console messages start printing every 10-15 seconds: ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x25 After the first boot attempt, further attempts only get as far as finishing "hardware initialization". I reproduced this behavior 3 out of 3 installation attempts. (In reply to comment #2) My troubles turned out to be related to a bad SATA cable connection. After replacing the faulty cable, I had no further problems. committed in stream U4 build 34.27. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ Unfortunately I have currently no available hardware to test it on. My experience is that the 1.02 BIOS breaks the onboard SATA on the 2895 on RHEL4u2 and RHEL4u3. The 1.03 BIOS also breaks the on board SATA. The 1.01 BIOS works with the onboard SATA. I haven't tested the RAID on that card. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html |