From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Maxtor 6L200M0 sata irq timeouts Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:08:31 +0900 Message-ID: <46FB56EF.8050703@gmail.com> References: <6b9952490709090740t188d5b71x26b90421bfe948bf@mail.gmail.com> <46E473D2.20907@gmail.com> <46E5F15A.2090803@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:24210 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758922AbXI0SQx (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:16:53 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so2379119rvb for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:16:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Michal Suchanek Cc: Joris , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello > > (please CC me when replying) > > On 11/09/2007, Tejun Heo 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