Re: NetBSD-9.3: Allwinner A20 sata timeout

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 09:01:20PM +0200, Jean-Yves Moulin wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> On an Olimex Lime2 board (Allwinner A20 CPU), I?m experiencing device timeout reading (or writing) fsbn on the internal SATA port. After timeout occurs, filesystem may be damaged (lost files, bad superblock, even fsck crash..etc).
> 
> I tried multiple disks (2 Samsung SSD 840Pro 500GB, 2 Hitachi HDD 1TB) and multiples cables, without enhancements. I tried disabling NCQ too.
> 
> I?m using NetBSD-9.3.
> 
> Has anybody experienced this ? Or should the allwinner SATA driver be stable ?

It's stable for me, with 9.1 and current. I probably ran some 9.2_STABLE at
some point, but I'm not sure if I tried 9.3

> ahcisata0 port 0: setting WDCTL_RST failed for drive 0
> [ 29428.9325898] wd0e: channel reset reading fsbn 1100272 of 1100272-1100285 (wd0 bn 16312816; cn 1610

the WDCTL_RST failing is a more serious problem than the I/O timeout.

Are you sure you don't have a power problem ?

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