Re: Test feedback 2.6.17.4+libata-tj-stable (EH, hotplug)

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Christian Pernegger wrote:

> I finally got around to testing 2.6.17.4 with libata-tj-stable-20060710.
>
> Hardware: ICH7R in ahci mode + WD5000YS's.
>
> EH: much, much better. Before the patch it seemed like errors were
> only printed to dmesg but never handed up to any layer above. Now md
> actually fails the disk when I pull the (power) plug. I'll try my bad
> cable once I can find it.
>
> Hotplug: Unplugging was fine, took about 15s until the driver gave up
> on the disk. After re-plugging the driver had to hard-reset the port
> once to get the disk back, though that might be by design.
>
> The fact that the disk had changed minor numbers after it was plugged
> back in bugs me a bit. (was sdc before, sde after). Additionally udev
> removed the sdc device file, so I had to manually recreate it to be
> able to remove the 'faulty' disk from its md array.
>
> Thanks for a great patch! I just hope it doesn't eat my data :) 

And thank you for testing!

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