Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-07 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:56:45 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paolo Ornati wrote: > > If mounting XFS with "nobarrier" fixes the problem it seems that more > > than one Seagate disk cannot handle the Cache Flush command while other > > commands are in fly... > > It's not allowed

Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Paolo Ornati wrote: If mounting XFS with "nobarrier" fixes the problem it seems that more than one Seagate disk cannot handle the Cache Flush command while other commands are in fly... It's not allowed to overlap NCQ (FPDMA read/write) commands with any other commands such as cache flushes. li

Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Trevor Offner Caira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (3) Keywords: SATA, AHCI, modules, kernel, Intel. Does your systems is being run using ata_piix or ahci driver? -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 590611

Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-07 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:59:46 -0500 (EST) "Trevor Offner Caira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) disabling NCQ ("echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth" in a > > boot script) > > No, this does not fix it. > > > OR > > > > 2) mounting XFS filesystem(s) with "nobarrier" option > > Neither

Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-07 Thread Trevor Offner Caira
> Are you using XFS, right? For /usr, /var and /home, yes. For /, no, my root partition is ext3. > Can you see if the problem goes away either: > > 1) disabling NCQ ("echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth" in a > boot script) No, this does not fix it. > OR > > 2) mounting XFS filesyst

Re: PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-07 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 21:08:33 -0500 (EST) "Trevor Offner Caira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) One-line summary: I'm getting SATA timeouts with Intel 82801HB on amd64. > > (2) Full description: Unless CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is set, I get sata > timeouts of this form periodically: > > ata1.00: e

PROBLEM: sata timeouts with intel 82801HB on amd64

2007-02-06 Thread Trevor Offner Caira
(1) One-line summary: I'm getting SATA timeouts with Intel 82801HB on amd64. (2) Full description: Unless CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is set, I get sata timeouts of this form periodically: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd 60/18:00:b3:22:0a/00:00:00:00:00/4