On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:25, Robert Hancock wrote: > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > >> Can you try reverting commit 721449bf0d51213fe3abf0ac3e3561ef9ea7827a > >> (link below) and see what effect that has? > >> > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commi > >>t;h =721449bf0d51213fe3abf0ac3e3561ef9ea7827a > > > > Obviously, I'll let you know if it happens again, but I've reverted this > > commit and transferred 22.5GB over 45 minutes onto a RAID5 with 4 HDs on > > an NVIDIA sata controller, and this error hasn't appeared. > > > > So I'm inclined to (very unscientifically) say that this brings it back > > to 2.6.20's level of stability. > > Interesting. Can you try un-reverting that patch, and applying this one? > > The reading of the status register is something that was part of the > original NVidia code, which I'm not really sure why is there. Given that > reading the status register clears the drive's interrupt status, that might > be causing some wierd interaction with the ADMA controller. Also, I added > in a printk for cases where notifiers are triggered but the command doesn't > indicate completion - if you still get problems, let me know if you see > that message.
Didn't take long to observe the problem again, so I'm guessing that this isn't it. I was definitely using a kernel compiled with your patch: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -v #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 23:39:56 GMT 2007 I got the following in dmesg: ata1: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x500 next cpb count 0x0 next cpb idx 0x0 ata1: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0xd, resp_flags 0x1 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:37:77:61/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1: soft resetting port ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Your debugging message did not appear in dmesg, however. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/