From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Arve Knudsen" Subject: Re: System freeze when transferring large files (libata) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:07:40 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: 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]:47089 "EHLO mail.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266242AbUGJNGR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:06:17 -0400 Received: from mail.broadpark.no (37.80-203-48.nextgentel.com [80.203.48.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2343E3898 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:06:46 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" 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). > > Thanks > > Arve Knudsen