On Tuesday 16 January 2007 00:34, Robert Hancock wrote:
> I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run into
> the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps it's
> some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the
> controller and that drive when running in ADMA mode? I seem to remember
> various reports of issues with certain Maxtor drives and some nForce
> SATA controllers under Windows at least..
I have exactly the same problem on -rc5 and it causes all I/O to stall
periodically if I do _anything_ I/O intensive.
On my box, I have 4 sata_nv handled SATA ports, with two pairs of different
drives (two Maxtor, two WD) and it happens randomly on both. So it's
absolutely nothing to do with the drive make/model.
I'll try Jeff's suggestion of disabling ADMA now, but I think something more
radical than this workaround should make it into 2.6.20 final, otherwise a
lot of people are going to have broken boxes.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
