Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:40:03 -0500 | From | Geoffrey Hoff <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19-pre3 udma ide hang with heavy disk activity |
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I just took a look at these two patches and they are already incorporated in linux-2.4.19-pre5 which gives me the same results as 2.4.19-pre3. Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks to everyone who works on the IDE subsystem. I'm sure someone will point me to a solution in no time flat.
* Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> [020331 16:38]: > > Please apply these which have been submitted to Alan Cox but originate > from Vojtech. > > Cheers, > > Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Geoffrey Hoff wrote: > > > On kernels 2.4.19-pre3 and later I get a disk hang any time I generate > > heavy disk activity. My test is a quick script that untars 2.4.0 and > > then applys patch up to 2.4.19 and repeats. With kernels 19-pre3 > > through 19-pre5, I can usually get through about the third patch and then > > my hard drive activity led goes solid and I can no longer access any > > disk. This is happening specifically with a VIA controller (vt82c596b > > rev 22) with a Maxtor 91536U6. Attached are part of my dmesg, > > proc/ide/via, hdinfo of /dev/hda and part of my .config. If I use > > hdparm to set the drive to mdma2 in 19-pre3 I never see any problems. It > > only happens in any udma mode. I compiled 19-pre3 with the via > > driver disabled, but the problem continues. I also tried 19-pre5 as I > > looked and saw that it contains more ide updates, but I get the same > > results. > > > > In 19-pre2 and previous kernels, If the drive is running in UDMA66, I > > ocassionally get checksum errors and retries so I usually on boot put > > the drive in UDMA33 mode. I have never seen any error of any kind in > > this mode. I have tried modes udma0, 2, and 4 on 2.4.19-pre3 and they > > all eventually hang. When this hang occurs, I get no kernel messages at > > all. I set dmesg to level 8 so I should see any message on the console. > > If it weren't for ext3 and reiserfs, I would be very tired of fscks by > > now. If there is anything that I can try to help narrow this problem > > down, please let me know. - 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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