RE: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-08-01 Thread Mark Haverkamp
rom: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:59 PM > To: Salyzyn, Mark > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1 > > "Salyzyn, Mark" <[EMAIL PROT

RE: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-08-01 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
failure with 2.6.13-rc1 "Salyzyn, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin may be overplaying the performance angle. > > A previous patch took the adapter from 64K to 4MB transaction sizes > across the board. This caused Martin's adapter and drive combination to

Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-07-29 Thread Martin Drab
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Salyzyn, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Martin may be overplaying the performance angle. > > > > A previous patch took the adapter from 64K to 4MB transaction sizes > > across the board. This caused Martin's adapter and drive combination to

Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-07-29 Thread Andrew Morton
"Salyzyn, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin may be overplaying the performance angle. > > A previous patch took the adapter from 64K to 4MB transaction sizes > across the board. This caused Martin's adapter and drive combination to > tip-over. We had to scale back to 128KB sized transact

RE: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-07-29 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
n, Mark; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1 . . . ah, thanks. A temporary workaround which might affct performance sounds better than a dead box though. Mark, do you think that many systems are likely to be affected this way? Do you think we should do something tempo

Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-07-29 Thread Andrew Morton
Martin Drab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [ 278.732829] scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device > > > [ 278.735954] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 491840 > > > [ 278.739147] lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 > > > [ 278.742389] scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to

Re: AACRAID failure with 2.6.13-rc1

2005-07-29 Thread Martin Drab
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Martin Drab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with the AACRAID driver on 2.6.13-rc1-git6 (also tested > > with -git4). I have an Adaptec AAR-2410SA SATA RAID controller card with 2 > > RAIDs defined on (sda (Data 2) is a