Re: sata_nv exceptions in 2.6.20.3

From: Christopher Mulcahy
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 10:38:15 EST



Robert Hancock thought this was a hardware problem.
He was right.

I switched around cables on the hot-swap backplane, figuring that I would determine whether I had a bad cable or a bad backplane ( hoping for a bad cable ) and the problem went away. One of the cables wasn't seated properly apparently. ( It was a tight 1U box with very aggressive twist-ties that I had to cut to switch them around, so this wasn't immediately obvious.

I would make sure that all cables are seated properly, and try a different cable if the problem persists.

Vincent Jorrand wrote:
I saw your email in the kernel dev mailing and I think I have the same problem, but since I am not a kernel developer, or running the bleeding edge kernels, I was not sure whether it was appropriate for me to post on the list.



My hard drive is a Seagate Barracudas ( 7200.10, 750GB, ST3750640AS ), very similar to yours. It is brand new (less than a month old)
I also get the:
CPB flags CMD err, flags-0x11
error in /var/log/messages.

I am running kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6

Did you figure out a way to fix the problem?

Vincent








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