SATA 500Gb disk problem

[Nguyen Tam Chinh]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, of course:

%dmesg | grep ata2
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ad4: 476940MB <WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0 06.02E06> at ata2-master SATA150
%dmesg | grep atapci0
atapci0: <SiI 3112 SATA150 controller> port 
0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd480-0xd483,0xd400-0xd407,0xd080-0xd083,0xd000-0xd00f mem 
0xff8fec00-0xff8fedff irq 22 at device 1.0 on pci1
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
%vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq20: fxp0                      8913713        574
irq21: ahc0                       126293          8
irq22: atapci0                   3484356        224
cpu0: timer                     31024212       1999
Total                           43548574       2807
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