From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: dalecki@evision-ventures.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE hang, partition strangeness
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:58:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4AC83A.5A0E37C0@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DA7022651A@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz
Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>
Hi, Petr. We're able to reproduce the ntpd thing btw. It is
caused by cset 1.403.142.43 "avoid allocating pte_chains for unshared
pages" - Rik is looking into it.
> On 1 Aug 02 at 23:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > Seems that the partitioning code in 2.5.30 is sending illegal LBAs
> > > to the IDE driver, which responds by hanging the box:
> >
> > I misread this backtrace:
> >
> > _this_ is the lba. 160086527. It is the very last sector on the disk.
>
> Did not it issued an error on the console before that? Something
> like 'hda: xxxx: status=YY' ?
There are no error messages.
> If it did, just open
> drivers/ide/ide.c in your favorite editor, locate function ata_error,
> in this function locate 'if (rq->errors >= ERROR_MAX)' and replace
> it with 'if (1)'...
Tried that - it made no difference.
It'd be convenient to get my IDE disks back. I'll try the 2.4
forward-port drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 10:15 IDE hang, partition strangeness Petr Vandrovec
2002-08-02 17:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-03 23:35 ` Marcin Dalecki
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2002-08-02 6:02 Andrew Morton
2002-08-02 6:56 ` Andrew Morton
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