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Re: [Xen-users] Major problems with 2.0.7 and SATA drives

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Major problems with 2.0.7 and SATA drives
From: Ralph Passgang <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:14:13 +0200
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Hi,

ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

this is usually a warning that only comes if the harddrive is really broken 
(and cannot read/write some blocks). I saw this message a lot in the last 
time and every time the diskdrive was really broken. But I never saw this in 
on a xen host. So maybe it's _only_ a xen problem and not a hw problem, but 
you should check.

To be sure you should check the harddrive with a special testing tool. All 
major companies that sell harddrive have their own tool. I guess WD has a 
similar tool anywhere on their webpage.

--Ralph

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2005 13:02 schrieb Ernst Bachmann:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2005 12:47, Alexander wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm hoping to find an answer to my problem here. Currently I'm installing
> > xen 2.0.7 on 30 dual opteron machines with 4GB memory. The machines have
> > Tyan K8SR as motherboard with Silicon Image 3114 chip sata controler and
> > 2 x 300 GB Western Digital SATA drives. Each xen server has 5 domUs,
> > where some of them have high traffic and thus require high disk usage. On
> > certain machines, I'm experiencing the following problem, after a while,
> > I get this error in dom0's dmesg:
> >
> > TA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xD080EC87
> > ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xD080EC87
> > ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xD080EC87
> > ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x51 host_stat 0x61
> > ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> Could you check /proc/interrupts if your SATA IRQ's are shared with some
> other hardware, maybe the USB-Controller?
>
> Oh, and with your hardware, you'd maybe want to consider running xen-3
> (unstable) instead of xen-2.0.7, so you can get access to all your memory
> (with 64 bit mode or PAE)
>
> /Ernst
>
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