From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_via bus errors fixed?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:11:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110126101119.GE12520@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3FF0D9.5040006@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Hello,
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:00:57AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Just a quick progress note. I'm most familiar with Suse and not familiar
> with kernel builds so last night I installed the pre-built
> Kernel:/HEAD/11.2 kernel from the opensuse build service. It's 2.6.37.
There are plenty of howtos on building kernel. It takes some time to
get used to but once you get a hang of it there's nothing difficult
about it. It usually is best to figure out small kernel configuration
which contain everything necessary to bring up the root filesystem and
other important hardware so that you don't have to worry about initrd
and modules.
> It was late so all I did was copy a 1.7 GB file to and from the new disk
> on the VT6241A controller. No errors were logged. Incidentally, what's
> the best way of testing for this type of reliability?
The best way would be finding out a workload which doesn't take too
much time but reliably triggers the issue on a problematic kernel.
> Tonight I plan to compile that kernel, which should confirm that I
> understand how to do it, and then I'll disable the VIA FIFO workaround
> as you suggest and see what happens.
Have fun!
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-26 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 16:06 sata_via bus errors fixed? Dave Howorth
2011-01-24 17:04 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-24 17:23 ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-25 10:35 ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-25 10:50 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-26 10:00 ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-26 10:11 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-01-31 10:50 ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-31 10:53 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-31 12:19 ` Dave Howorth
2011-01-31 13:24 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-04 12:09 ` Dave Howorth
2011-02-08 11:16 ` Dave Howorth
2011-02-09 9:43 ` Tejun Heo
2011-02-09 10:04 ` Dave Howorth
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