From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: FYI: BUG in SATA Promise 300 TX4 (2.6.24 - 2.6.27-3) w/Linux Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:01:32 +0900 Message-ID: <4920D07C.40005@kernel.org> References: <491C9A4F.1020801@tlinx.org> <491FB7E2.2030105@kernel.org> <18719.65298.689618.835202@harpo.it.uu.se> <49204EEA.8030605@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:48095 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754589AbYKQCCP (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:02:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49204EEA.8030605@wasp.net.au> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Campbell Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Linda Walsh , LKML , Smartmontools Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Brad Campbell wrote: >> The hardreset fix was included in 2.6.27.5. I wanted it in 2.6.26-stable >> too, but that branch seems to have been closed now. > > Is that likely to do anything for the old SATA150-TX4 ? > I have 2 of them in a machine and I've been dropping drives under write > load recently but it was a 2.6.27.4 kernel. > > Reboot required to pick up the drives again (unless the kernel panics > and it reboots itself - which it's been doing also). Does unloading and reloading sata_promise fix the problem? If your root is on promise, you'll need to try this from usb stick or live CD. -- tejun