Bug 446280

Summary: Spurious DevExch events on JMicron SATA controller
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Clive Messer <clive.m.messer>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Clive Messer 2008-05-13 21:14:52 UTC
Description of problem:

Spurious events relating to JMicron controller.

03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI
Controller (rev 03)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI
Controller (rev 03)

ata7: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xa frozen
ata7: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
ata7: SError: { DevExch }
ata7: hard resetting link
ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata7: EH complete

ata7 and ata8 are the 2 sata ports on the JMicron controller, but neither have a
drive connected. ata9 is the PATA port with a CDROM drive connected.

Does not matter if JMicron controller is configured to AHCI or IDE in bios.
dmesg shows these events being generated on ata7 at 5-8 second intervals.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.24.5-85.fc8.x86_64

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2008-05-15 12:45:14 UTC
I doubt the hardware is making them up. That would suggest power or signalling
problems not software.


Comment 2 Clive Messer 2008-05-15 12:57:48 UTC
alan, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but with a bit more digging I notice 
that this is also being reported by other users using Ubuntu with a 2.6.24 
kernel. 
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/198871
P.S. I'm 99.9% sure that this is not a power supply issue. Signalling - I'm not 
sure what you mean. There are no drives connected to the JMicron SATA ports.

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2008-05-15 13:29:02 UTC
No drives so that implies a sata funny in the AHCI code or Jmicron chip. No
immediate ideas on the SATA side so I've reassigned the bug to the sata wizard


Comment 4 Clive Messer 2008-05-26 13:56:52 UTC
This problem seems to be resolved since upgrade to kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.x86_64

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