Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:49:19 -0400 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: XFS shutting down due to IO timeout on SATA disk (pata_via for CX700) |
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Tejun Heo wrote: >.. > Hmm.. most of FLUSH timeouts I've seen are either a dying drive or bad > PSU. There just isn't much which can go wrong from the driver side. > IIRC, there was a problem when the unused part of TF is not cleared > but that was the only one. > >> Smartctl output is clean (no logged errors), and the drives themselves >> are fine after a reboot -- necessary since libata/scsi kicked the drive out >> of the RAID array. >> >> Something strange is going on here. > > Any chance you can trick the client to hook up the drive to a separate PSU? ..
No, the failures happen randomly at customer sites, and only since they "upgraded" to SLES10 with libata. I think the PSUs are probably just fine.
Time to hack the drivers to give proper status on the timeouts, too; otherwise we won't ever have any clue as to what is really happening.
Cheers
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