SATA 500Gb disk problem

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:26:25AM +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> We have some dedicated servers at layeredtech. Currently new SATA 500Gb 
> drive was added to each server and we now noticed strange problems with 
> all of them: all new sata disks failed under normal load (3-6 Mbit/s I/O). 
> Engineers at data center replaced the drives but they failed again and 
> again.
> Do you have any experience in working with 500Gb or more SATA drive?

Can you provide what ATA chipset this drive is connected to?  The
drive appears to be associated with ata2.  The following may suffice,
for example:

$ dmesg | grep ata2
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120827AS 3.42> at ata2-master SATA150

$ dmesg | grep atapci1
atapci1: <nVidia nForce CK804 SATA300 controller> port 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xd800-0xd80f mem 0xd3002000-0xd3002fff irq 23 at device 7.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1

Additionally, please provide the output of `vmstat -i` to see
if there's any shared interrupts with the ATA controller.

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