From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: ATA Write Error and Time-out Notification in User Space Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:45:21 +0000 Message-ID: <1136378721.22598.90.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1136314722.22598.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1136378264.24032.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:25058 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104AbWADMnJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:43:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1136378264.24032.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Erik Slagter Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2006-01-04 at 13:37 +0100, Erik Slagter wrote: > > Its been known for some time so perhaps the ide maintainers have patches > > waiting for 2.6.16 now its opened ? > > Is this patch supposed to fix this problem: Nope - it fixes a problem with the old IDE layer. > Promise SATAII150 TX2plus using libata_promise, when it misses one > single interrupt (or maybe it's not even missed but only delayed), it > goes crazy, kernel log is full with disk failures, and the disk is > kicked out of the md(1) array grmbl. > > This happens when amd76x_pm is used, even with the irq watcher in the > utter most conservative setting. Does it happen with it not being used ?