Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? I don't feel too confident about applying this to al

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? I don't fee

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? I don't feel too confident about applying this to al

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: >> I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. >> IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you >> please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? >> I don't feel too confident about applying this to all SFF co

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Alan Cox
> I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. > IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you > please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? > I don't feel too confident about applying this to all SFF controllers. Old IDE

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> I reported a very similar bug back a few releases ago. >>> Anyone who wants to try it themselves, can do this with hdparm-7.7 (from >>> sourceforge): >>> >>>hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda >>> >>> Whether or not it hangs t

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-07 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Mark Lord wrote: I reported a very similar bug back a few releases ago. Anyone who wants to try it themselves, can do this with hdparm-7.7 (from sourceforge): hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda Whether or not it hangs the machine does depend upon exactly which SATA LLD

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Mark Lord wrote: > I reported a very similar bug back a few releases ago. > Anyone who wants to try it themselves, can do this with hdparm-7.7 (from > sourceforge): > >hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda > > Whether or not it hangs the machine does depend upon exactly which SATA > LLD is

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Bryan Woods wrote: > The full dmesg and hdparm -I command output are attached. > > I have received word from the vendor that the Stardom 2611 will do > RAID0 or 1 under windows, but only RAID1 under Linux. (Their manual > said it worked with Linux but failed to mention the RAID mode > restriction

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-06 Thread Bryan Woods
Tejun Heo wrote: > Michal Piotrowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> [Adding linux-ide to CC] >> >> On 25/08/07, Bryan Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi KML >>> >>> I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server >>> (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 de

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Andrew Morton wrote: .. Hey, we just found something which doesn't crash my Vaio! sony:/home/akpm/hdparm-7.7> 0 ./hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda /dev/sda: triggering "stuck DRQ" host state machine error do_drq_hsm_error: Success ata status=0x58 ata error=0x00 ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAc

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:23:35 -0400 Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> please try 2.6.22.5. Even if it doesn't fix the problem, it would > >> report error conditions better. > > > > Presumably in the week and a half between Bryan's report and your request, > > Bryan

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:53:00 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, [Adding linux-ide to CC] On 25/08/07, Bryan Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi KML I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server (total of 4

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:53:00 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [Adding linux-ide to CC] > > > > On 25/08/07, Bryan Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi KML > >> > >> I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron serve

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > [Adding linux-ide to CC] > > On 25/08/07, Bryan Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi KML >> >> I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server >> (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 device: actually >> two 250

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-08-26 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, [Adding linux-ide to CC] On 25/08/07, Bryan Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi KML > > I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server > (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 device: actually > two 250GB drives in a RAID0 config managed by t

Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-08-24 Thread Bryan Woods
Hi KML I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 device: actually two 250GB drives in a RAID0 config managed by the device itself - it should appear to the kernel as one SATA drive. If it matters, the un