Re: libata oops 2.6.11-rc4 yesterdays BK

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> Now I have also replaced the PSU with a much better specced unit, so 
> that may have also been a contributing factor to the oops. (The 12v rail 
> was running on the edge).
> 
> If this rebuild this morning gets through then I'll go back to the old 
> kernel that was oopsing and try it again to compare.
> 

Ok, I have beat on all the kernels I have available. 2.6.10-bk10, 2.6.11-rc4-something, 
2.6.11-rc4-bk6 and 2.6.11-bk8 all with the libata-dev patches of the time, and none of them oops 
now. It *must* have been a flaky PSU.
SMART polling does cause the occasional drive timeout, causing the drive to be booted from the 
array, but nothing fatal and I have to be seriously hammering the disks with both I/O and SMART 
requests to get it to occur.

Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Brad
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