From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Arve Knudsen <aknuds-1@broadpark.no>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: System freeze when transferring large files (libata)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:11:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EFEAE4.3060201@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <opsaxaq20rfmr65f@mail.broadpark.no>
Arve Knudsen wrote:
> I thought I'd add that this is on an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard, and the
> filesystem is ext3.
>
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:03:18 +0200, Arve Knudsen
> <aknuds-1@broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>> I've been having this problem lately when transferring large amounts
>> of data to my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA 120GB drive, which is
>> connected to a Promise SATA150 TX2 Plus controller. It happened once
>> with an -mm kernel, but I figured it was probably down to instability
>> in the -mm patchset. However it just happened to me again with a
>> vanilla 2.6.6 kernel, when untarring a backup. The system froze
>> completely, I couldn't even use alt+sysrq+b to reboot. Are there any
>> known issues with the Promise driver that can lead to such lockups?
>> I've recently run a disc check which found no problems (it wasn't
>> Maxtor's own though, but Seagate's as the Maxtor tools won't work
>> with the controller).
No known bugs at least. Promise seems to be more stable than most, in fact.
Maybe you have an intermittent problem with your SATA cables.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-10 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-09 16:03 System freeze when transferring large files (libata) Arve Knudsen
2004-07-10 13:07 ` Arve Knudsen
2004-07-10 13:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-07-10 16:52 ` Arve Knudsen
2004-07-12 13:44 ` Arve Knudsen
2004-07-12 13:59 ` Catalin BOIE
2004-07-12 15:17 ` Arve Knudsen
2004-07-12 15:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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