From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751317AbWA0GvZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:51:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751358AbWA0GvZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:51:25 -0500 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:17417 "HELO relay02.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751317AbWA0GvY (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:51:24 -0500 X-pair-Authenticated: 67.163.102.102 From: Chase Venters Organization: Clientec, Inc. To: Kalin KOZHUHAROV Subject: Re: libata errors in 2.6.15.1 ICH6 AHCI (SATA drive WD740GD) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:50:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601270051.20329.chase.venters@clientec.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 January 2006 23:07, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote: > Hi there. > > I am reiterating this, while trying to diagnose the problem. > It is a DIY box with Asus P5GDC-V Deluxe motherboard with Marvel 88E8053 GB > ethernet (for info see [1]) and WD740GD (10k RPM) harddisk. > Funny. I've been having problems at least since 2.6.13 (perhaps before; my memory is broken) with my Asus P5GDC-V Deluxe and 4 WD drives. I've seen DMA timeouts on my serial console, followed by an immediate kernel freeze in which Magic SysRQ doesn't even respond. I have yet to experience the freezing behavior on 2.6.15 (though I think I may have seen errors in dmesg at one point), but then again, I've been a victim of a slab leak which means I haven't maintained much of an uptime under 2.6.15. I'm working on debugging the slab leak at the moment... unfortunately, I don't know enough about SATA to really debug this issue. Bisecting would take forever because it usually takes several days before I ever experience a random freeze. Nevertheless, if anyone has any pointers, I'd really like to start to wring some of these bugs out of my kernel. > > Kalin. Cheers, Chase