Re: Toshiba Satellite P10

Jaco Kroon
2005-12-24T11:21:35Z

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Manuel Lauss wrote:
> Jaco Kroon wrote:
>
>
>>ide_do_request+0x18a/0x3c5
>>io_schedule+0xe/0x16
>>sync_page+0x3e/0x4b
>>__wait_on_bit_lock+0x41/0x61
>>sync_page+0x0/0x4b
>>__lock_page+0x9d/0xb1
>>wake_bit_function+0x0/0x55
>>wake_bit_function+0x0/0x55
>>do_generic_mapping_read+0x335/0x7fd
>>__generic_file_aio_read+0x19d/0x203
>>file_read_actor+0x0/0xfa
>>generic_file_read+0xba/0xd8
>>autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x57
>>vfs_read+0x1a5/0x1aa
>>kernel_read+0x50/0x5f
>>prepare_binprm+0xd8/0x103
>>do_execve+0xfe/0x203
>>sys_execve+0x3c/0x6f
>>sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
>>
>>Second run round the first command I issued worked fine, as did cd to
>>/usr/src/linux, but running make menuconfig failed. This time the stack
>>trace was considerably longer (I'm not going to type that over). The
>>top two calls are the same, but it comes in from sync_buffer,
>>__wait_on_bit, sync_buffer, sync_buffer, out_of_line_wait_on_bit,
>>wake_bit_function, wakebit_function, and so forth. A quick scan of the
>>VI between rc5 and rc6 doesn't reveal any changes that could possibly
>>affect this (I'm going to patch to rc6 in any case).
>
>
> I have a Vaio which has the same ide problem (at least I think so):
> after resume, all processes wishing to access the disk hang,
> dmesg shows lots of "hda: lost interrupt" messages.
> However, doing a "hdparm -w /dev/hda" after resume makes everything
> work again.
>

>From the man page:

-w Perform a device reset (DANGEROUS). Do NOT use this
option. It
exists for unlikely situations where a reboot might
otherwise be
required to get a confused drive back into a useable state.

Ok. I don't have really important data on the notebook atm (all backed
up for obvious reasons). So I gave this a try. It causes the kernel to
crash entirely. No more SysRq. No OOPS. Nothing. It outputs a single
string namely "/dev/hda:" and then dies.

Jaco
--
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world,
those that understand binary and those that don't.
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