From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: System freeze when transferring large files (libata) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:11:00 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40EFEAE4.3060201@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:8412 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266244AbUGJNL0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:11:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Arve Knudsen Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" 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 > 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