Description of problem: There is an issue in ATI SB600/SB700 SATA that PxSERR.E should not be set on some conditions, which will lead to many SATA ODD error messages. commit 55a61604cd1354e1783364e1c901034f2f474b7d is the workaround. Since SB800 fixed this HW issue, IGN_SERR_INTERNAL should be withdrawn for SB800. This patch has been accepted by driver maintainer, by has not been merged into linus source tree yet, I will provide the git link when it is available. thanks.
Here is the upstream git link, FYI: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e427fe042cf90c0652eed9a85e57a8fd8af89890
Created attachment 331790 [details] Backported to RHEL5.x, based on kernel 2.6.18-131
Updating PM score.
Hi Shane, I have applied your patch the latest RHEL5 sources and built a test rpm, would you please boot the kernel-2.6.18-131.el5.bz474301.1 kernel on a SB700 and SB800 platform as a sanity check? Thanks. http://people.redhat.com/dmilburn/
The testing kernel-2.6.18-131.el5.bz474301.1 can work on both SB700 and SB800. Thanks
in kernel-2.6.18-134.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so. However feel free to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.
verified with kernel-2.6.18-134, thanks.
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Verified again with RHEL5.4 Alpha(kernel-2.6.18-152), thanks.
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