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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata timeouts when stressing a Samsung HDD
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:03:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49934B20.4060206@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211152908.383744cd@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:08:40 -0500
> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> 
>> If I let hddtemp or smartctl run periodically during heavy writes,
>> one (or both?) of the drives would eventually have issues and require
>> a reset.  Problem was never resolved (I simply got rid of the periodic
>> hddtemp and smartctl invocations instead).
>>
> 
> smartd is disabled and I don't even have hddtemp installed, so I don't
> think they could be causing this.
..

I didn't figure they were the cause, just a possible trigger
for some other rare issue.

I wonder if it's just a case of too short a timeout on the cache flushes?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 21:40 libata timeouts when stressing a Samsung HDD Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-11  1:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-11  4:08   ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 20:29     ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-11 22:03       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-02-11 22:11         ` Jeff Garzik
2009-02-11 22:29           ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 22:54             ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-12 16:10               ` Mark Lord
2009-02-12 16:13                 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-16  3:12                   ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-16 21:30                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-19  6:21                       ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-19 16:41                         ` Greg Freemyer
2009-02-20  0:33                           ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-12  4:28           ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-19 15:27             ` Mark Lord
2009-02-20  0:32               ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-20  2:52                 ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-20  3:26                   ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-01 19:31                     ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-01 20:28                       ` Alan Cox
2009-02-11 20:24   ` Chuck Ebbert

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