Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:41:37 +0100 | From | "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <> | Subject | Re: Strange DMA-errors and system hang with Promise 20268 |
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:50:12AM -0600, Bruce Allen wrote: > > > I suspect it having something to do with 2.4.25 new "One last > > > read after the timeout" in ide-iops.c and accessing the drive > > > while selftest running (possibly especially short selftest). > Does the disk's SMART error log (smartctl -l error) show any entries
Just in addition, to point this out more clearly: I personally don't suspect smartmontools having some problem. I run debians smartmontools package since a long time and it does the selftests a long time as well. It never had problems with it, it wasnt updated close to first occurence of the problem or changed in any other way. I have 4 disks, 2 on the onboard VIA controller, 2 on the Promise. The problem always occured on the Promise (like Henrik pointed too) disk. I more suspect any kernel ide <-> promise-driver timing problem. Maybe smartmontools makes it more possibe that this timing problem occurs, maybe not (with Henriks answer to my question I rather favorite the 'maybe not'), maybe it's even just some load issue making the problem occur.
Mario -- <jv> Oh well, config <jv> one actually wonders what force in the universe is holding it <jv> and makes it working <Beeth> chances and accidents :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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