RE: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

Well, after more mucking about, and copying data off of the production LVM on to the backup LVM, I noticed that no matter where I put this one Seagate drive, it caused dma_timer_expiry errors. Once I replaced this drive, everything settled down again, and has been running normally. So it's not th

RE: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

Hi There! Yea, I thought that it might be power related as well, so I moved 1/2 of the drives from the 500 Watt power supply onto a separate one, and it did not change any of the symptoms. So I think that it's been ruled out. Thanks, Erik. > > Hello

System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

First off, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays! Hang on, this is a bit of a long story, but I think that you'll need the information and background. I want what amounts to a NAS, that I'd like to build on gentoo Linux. I'm familiar with gentoo and the use of EVMS, so I think I'

Odd system lock up

OK, got the 2.6.19 kernel installed and running OK, full libata wrapping of existing IDE controllers and hard disks. I'm experiencing some odd, random periodic system lockups without any sort of debugging information being captured in the system message log. Perhaps it's a hard disk that's causin

RE: libata update?

> -Original Message- > From: Robert Hancock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: libata update? > > Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > > It's been a numb

libata update?

It's been a number of months since I build a custom kernel with the libata incorporated to deal with multiple Promise EIDE controller card's 'DMA Expiry' errors. I'd like to re-build basically the same thing with an updated kernel and updates libata. Could someone point me into the right directio