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



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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