From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: Re: [git patches] libata fixes Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:06:59 -0400 Message-ID: <1269367619.13592.12.camel@mj> References: <20100323134226.GA14752@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:27486 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753967Ab0CWSHE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:07:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100323134226.GA14752@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > This push includes a fix for the ata_piix timeouts people have been > seeing... it has seen several successful test reports, and is ready for > wider testing in 2.6.34-rc. Tested-by: Pavel Roskin My OCZ Solid was giving me timeouts. I thought it was about to die, so I bought an Intel X-25M urgently, copied my data, but the timeouts continued. After some googling I found that a patch for that was sent this very morning! After applying the patch, the timeouts have stopped. They would appear minutes after reboot, but it has been over an hour since I rebooted and no timeouts. My motherboard is ECS G31T-M, which is not AHCI capable, so I was using ata_piix, which explains why I was affected. My kernel is 2.6.34-rc2 (actually, wireless-testing.git). By all means, please push this patch to all stable kernels, or more money will be wasted on hard drives ;-) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin