From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Arve Knudsen" Subject: System freeze when transferring large files (libata) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:03:18 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mail.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.2]:34705 "EHLO mail.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265022AbUGIQCA (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:02:00 -0400 Received: from mail.broadpark.no (37.80-203-48.nextgentel.com [80.203.48.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C963C79 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:02:28 +0200 (MEST) List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" 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). Thanks Arve Knudsen