I've just put a second SiI 3114 SATARaid card in my home server so that I could add
another pair of SATA drives and increase my storage space. Annoyingly, it
doesn't seem to work:
[ 32.816030] ata5: lost interrupt (Status 0x0)
[ 32.816072] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 32.816091] ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096
in
[ 32.816094] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4
(timeout)
[ 32.816101] ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 32.816117] ata5: hard resetting link
[ 33.136082] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[ 36.060940] irq 18: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[ 36.060949] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu
[ 36.060954] Call Trace:
[ 36.060977] [] ? printk+0x18/0x1c
[ 36.060997] [] __report_bad_irq+0x27/0x90
[ 36.061005] [] note_interrupt+0x150/0x190
[ 36.061011] [] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xac/0xd0
[ 36.061023] [] handle_irq+0x18/0x30
[ 36.061029] [] do_IRQ+0x47/0xc0
[ 36.061042] [] ? irq_exit+0x50/0x70
[ 36.061058] [] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0x90
[ 36.061065] [] common_interrupt+0x30/0x40
[ 36.061075] [] ? native_safe_halt+0x5/0x10
[ 36.061082] [] default_idle+0x46/0xd0
[ 36.061088] [] cpu_idle+0x8c/0xd0
[ 36.061103] [] rest_init+0x55/0x60
[ 36.061111] [] start_kernel+0x2e6/0x2ec
[ 36.061117] [] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19e
[ 36.061133] [] i386_start_kernel+0x7c/0x83
[ 36.061137] handlers:
[ 36.061139] [] (sil_interrupt+0x0/0xb0)
[ 36.061151] Disabling IRQ #18
[ 38.136014] ata5: hard resetting link
[ 38.456022] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[ 43.456013] ata5: hard resetting link
[ 43.776022] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
[ 43.776035] ata5.00: disabled
[ 43.776055] ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 43.776074] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 43.776082] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current]
[descriptor]
[ 43.776092] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 43.776097] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 43.776112] 00 00 00 00
[ 43.776118] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[ 43.776127] end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 0
[ 43.776136] Buffer I/O error on device sde, logical block 0
[ 43.776170] ata5: EH complete
[ 43.776187] ata5.00: detaching (SCSI 4:0:0:0)
root@core:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 47 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 8 IO-APIC-edge i8042
6: 3 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
14: 53069 IO-APIC-edge pata_sis
15: 53004 IO-APIC-edge pata_sis
17: 112265 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_sil
18: 200002 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_sil, SiS SI7012
19: 111140 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
20: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb2
21: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3
23: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 6650492 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
CNT: 0 Performance counter interrupts
PND: 0 Performance pending work
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 160 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
root@core:~# lspci | grep Raid
00:09.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
root@core:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
root@core:~# uname -a
Linux core.topper.me.uk 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
I've tried a combination of different kernel options (irqpoll, noapic, noacpi,
pci=noapic) all to no avail. Does anyone have any bright ideas about how I
can go about making this work?
Swapping PCI cards around isn't an option as there are only two slots in this motherboard (an ASRock K7S41GX). The BIOS doesn't look to have too much in the way of configuration options regarding IRQ usage.
Plan B is to ditch this server completely and buy a new QNAP for these drives to go in, but I was hoping to avoid doing this right now.