Re: Maxtor 6L200M0 sata irq timeouts

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Hello
> 
> (please CC me when replying)
> 
> On 11/09/2007, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>>> What does 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' say?
>>>>
>>> Attaching output.
>> Hmmm... How often does the condition occur?  smartlog records only two
>> occasions.
>>
> 
> Every few minutes when the system is under load, less often when not.
> 
> I think the logged drive errors are unrelated, the drive delivers the
> interrupt, just a bit later than Linux expects. At least that is my
> impression after looking at the these logs and the logs from the old
> system (I am not sure I could still find the saved logs but with some
> combination of irq related kernel options I got spurious interrupt
> instead of timeout, and the drive got disabled).

Can you please test the latest rc kernel and see whether this problem is
still there?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun