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

To: Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Major problems with 2.0.7 and SATA drives
From: Alexander <alex@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:04:46 -0700
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Irqs are not being shared, I just checked:
17:    6039746        Phys-irq  libata
19: 0 Phys-irq ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2 I actually only have 4 GB of memory, so pae is not necessary and we don't want to run 64 bit yet. Any other suggestions?

Ernst Bachmann writes:
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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