From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: XFS shutting down due to IO timeout on SATA disk (pata_via for CX700) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:35:13 -0700 Message-ID: <48CFEE51.2070200@kernel.org> References: <20080911193511.7960bc82@neptune.home> <48CE22E5.9090403@kernel.org> <20080915190242.58d21a8f@neptune.home> <48CEC8F2.4040904@kernel.org> <20080916102152.3f35439f@pluto.restena.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:40312 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752524AbYIPRhQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080916102152.3f35439f@pluto.restena.lu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord Hello, Bruno Pr=E9mont wrote: > I don't have other drives of the same model, but 3 ones slightly smal= ler > in size and previous generation, those are just a few months older (b= ut > also have way more uptime), see below for the smartctl output. I've n= ever > seen ATA errors on them. > These other drives are running on AMD based platform, SB600 SATA with= AHCI. So, smartctl output seems fine. > Just for the record, on the VIA there were no errors yet with > 2.6.27-rc6-git3 though I ran some compiling on it. As such it *could*= be > that one of the patches pushed by Jeff helped: > [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h > sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking > ata: duplicate variable sparse warning The only patch which could have affected the result is the off-by-one one; however, FLUSH timeout is a bit unexpected failure mode for the problem. Can you please keep the system running for a whlie and see whether the problem occurs? Thanks. --=20 tejun