Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bäckstrand <> | Subject | Re: How does the disk buffer cache work? | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 02:29:47 +0100 |
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Matthew Zahorik wrote: > > Earlier I wrote to the list where my SS10 hung on the partition check > if a bad disk was installed. > > This behavior is new to the 2.4.20 kernel. I previously ran 2.2.20 on the > machine. (the default in a Debian 3.0r0 install) I can't vouch for 2.4 > kernels previous to 2.4.20. > > I have traced the problem to a hang in the one of the disk buffer caches. > > Can anyone tell me how to correct the behavior so that I: > > 1. Don't break things for other parts of the kernel > 2. The disk cache will return with an error for a hung disk? > > Here's the tail of the console with debugging printk's inserted: > > ... > [.. the next function call in read_cache_page() is lock_page(), which we > hang forever on ..]
This happens to me aswell. 2.5.35(I think) and 2.4.20 is not working, a slackware 2.2 bootdisk is fine though so something is wrong. The hdd is fine in DOS aswell.
--- John Bäckstrand
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