attached dmesg and lspci

10x jeff
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> Dan Nica wrote:
> > hello
> > 
> > I have a problem with a serial ata controller
> > that uses a SiI 3512 chip.
> 
> A complete dmesg, complete lspci would be helpful.
> 
> 
> > when I'm trying to add a device thats on the 3512 controller to the array
> > that I have, it give me lots of errors in dmesg
> > like this:
> > 
> > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
> > ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8652001
> > ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:3f:5c:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680
> > out
> >          res 51/04:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> 
> That's the device reporting an error, when the system issued a WRITE command
> ("cmd 35/....."), and the SiI controller is happily reporting that error to
> you.
> 
> I would worry about the device, if it is reporting errors on WRITE.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
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