From: Witold Krecicki <adasi@kernel.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SII SATA request size limit
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:44:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309181344.57130.adasi@kernel.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bk43av$cp6$1%proserpine.haus@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk>
Dnia pon 15. września 2003 12:12, Adam Jones napisał:
> In a futile gesture against entropy, Witold Krecicki wrote:
> > I've lost some of mails about siimage on LKML, but Im' getting more and
> > more confused about 'hangs' probably caused by siimage driver. I was
> > using 15 rqsize, now 128 - doesn't matter. It happens in random moments -
> > sometimes at boot time when drive is fscked, sometimes when I'm trying to
> > copy large amount of data and sometimes without any particular reason
> > after several hours.
>
> Out of interest, do you have some sort of SCSI controller in your
> system as well? I've got a SiI3112 card and I get a hard lock-up pretty
> much as soon as anything touches the SCSI bus on my aic7xxx card.
> Disabling DMA on the SiI IDE channel seems to work around it, at the
> cost of a lot of performance... (this is on stock 2.4.22, BTW)
No, only on-board nForce2 IDE controller. Disabling ACPI helped. - now it's
stable
> Setting rqsize to 128 seems perfectly stable for me - my drive reports
> itself as a ST380013AS (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 80GB).
I use 128 too, and I've got 2xST3120026AS (Barracuda 7200.7 120GB) in software
RAID0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-18 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 2:57 SII SATA request size limit Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-09-12 10:41 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12 17:46 ` Witold Krecicki
2003-09-15 10:12 ` Adam Jones
2003-09-18 11:44 ` Witold Krecicki [this message]
2003-09-15 5:57 ` Catalin BOIE
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2003-09-12 20:48 Eduardo Casino
2003-09-15 8:47 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-12 20:55 Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-09-13 10:56 ` Witold Krecicki
2003-09-12 21:00 Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-09-12 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12 23:07 Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-09-12 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 16:43 Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-09-14 0:57 Eduardo Casino
2003-09-15 15:24 CASINO_E
2003-09-15 15:32 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-15 16:00 ` Justin Cormack
2003-09-15 16:07 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-15 22:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 16:33 CASINO_E
2003-09-18 17:43 Allen Martin
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