From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
Stuart_Hayes@dell.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:43:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706192043.40298.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070619164854.GR5836@austin.ibm.com>
Hi,
On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:10:25PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> >
> > >I'm thinking that trying to debug libata is a better idea, rather than
> > >investing time in ide, right? Although at the moment, libata works even
> > >less; see other email.
> >
> > Which makes me think this really is some *hardware* issue.
Linas, have you checked that there are no firmware updates available
for this drive?
> There are two distinct issues.
> -- libata locks up in partition table read on an hpt366+old maxtor disk
> that has ben working fine for many years with old ide driver. (It
> still works fine when I boot to the alternate ide-based kernel).
>
> -- ide driver locks up on hpt366+new maxtor disk under heavy
> i/o load. I was able to copy 60GB from old to new disk without a
> problem; however, raid reconstruction locks it up, maybe after 5-15
> seconds.
>
> This probably is "hardware related"; its something that the new
> hard drive does. Given that its being sold at a big discount, it
> may even be that the sellers know that this is a crappy disk. :-)
>
> All I want is some way of resetting the disk, and continuing on.
It would be useful to see hdparm --Istdout output for *both* disks.
> I'm stalled in debugging; I'm not sue what I'm looking for.
Sergei, do you think that testing the drive with DMA disabled may
tell us something new?
Thanks,
Bart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-18 17:57 [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup Linas Vepstas
2007-06-18 18:11 ` Stuart_Hayes
2007-06-19 14:07 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-19 15:05 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-19 16:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-19 16:48 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-19 18:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2007-06-19 20:07 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-20 16:28 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-20 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-21 17:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-21 21:41 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-21 19:47 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-21 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-18 20:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-18 20:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-18 21:04 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-18 21:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-06-19 14:56 ` bug in libata [was " Linas Vepstas
2007-06-19 14:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-19 14:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-19 14:24 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-19 15:38 ` Mark Lord
2007-06-19 15:51 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-19 16:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-19 16:32 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-22 15:39 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-29 18:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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