On Tuesday 16 January 2007 00:34, Robert Hancock wrote: > I'll try your stress test when I get a chance, but I doubt I'll run into > the same problem and I haven't seen any similar reports. Perhaps it's > some kind of wierd timing issue or incompatibility between the > controller and that drive when running in ADMA mode? I seem to remember > various reports of issues with certain Maxtor drives and some nForce > SATA controllers under Windows at least..
I have exactly the same problem on -rc5 and it causes all I/O to stall periodically if I do _anything_ I/O intensive. On my box, I have 4 sata_nv handled SATA ports, with two pairs of different drives (two Maxtor, two WD) and it happens randomly on both. So it's absolutely nothing to do with the drive make/model. I'll try Jeff's suggestion of disabling ADMA now, but I think something more radical than this workaround should make it into 2.6.20 final, otherwise a lot of people are going to have broken boxes. -- 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/
