From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:41:57 -0500 Message-ID: <4405F905.6060503@pobox.com> References: <43F2050B.8020006@dgreaves.com> <200602141300.37118.lkml@rtr.ca> <440040B4.8030808@dgreaves.com> <440083B4.3030307@rtr.ca> <4400A1BF.7020109@rtr.ca> <4400B439.8050202@dgreaves.com> <4401122A.3010908@rtr.ca> <44017B4B.3030900@dgreaves.com> <4401B560.40702@rtr.ca> <4403704E.4090109@rtr.ca> <4403A84C.6010804@gmail.com> <4403CEA9.4080603@rtr.ca> <44042863.2050703@dgreaves.com> <44046CE6.60803@rtr.ca> <44046D86.7050809@pobox.com> <4405DCAF.6030500@dgreaves.com> <4405DDEA.7020309@rtr.ca> <4405E42B.9040804@dgreaves.com> <4405E83D.9000906@rtr.ca> <4405F78D.7000005@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:11226 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751844AbWCATmK (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:42:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Mark Lord , David Greaves , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de, Linus Torvalds Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Mark Lord wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >>> >>> Did you mean you wanted us to test it like we normally do, ie, copy >>> files/md5sum them on the disk and see if we can make it occur again, or? >> >> >> Yes. The S.M.A.R.T. stuff doesn't matter nearly as much as normal I/O. >> >> And Justin, can you get those S.M.A.R.T. errors to pop up on 2.6.15 as >> well? >> > > Have not tested, can test later if necessary, running some I/O tests to > the disk which is probably going to take quite a while to see if I can > get it to error again with 2.6.16-rc5-git4. If there are FUA problems, it would be immediately apparent on the first write... Jeff