From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata timeouts when stressing a Samsung HDD
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:03:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49934B20.4060206@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211152908.383744cd@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com>
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:08:40 -0500
> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>
>> If I let hddtemp or smartctl run periodically during heavy writes,
>> one (or both?) of the drives would eventually have issues and require
>> a reset. Problem was never resolved (I simply got rid of the periodic
>> hddtemp and smartctl invocations instead).
>>
>
> smartd is disabled and I don't even have hddtemp installed, so I don't
> think they could be causing this.
..
I didn't figure they were the cause, just a possible trigger
for some other rare issue.
I wonder if it's just a case of too short a timeout on the cache flushes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 21:40 libata timeouts when stressing a Samsung HDD Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-11 1:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-11 4:08 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 20:29 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-11 22:03 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-02-11 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-02-11 22:29 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 22:54 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-12 16:10 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-12 16:13 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-16 3:12 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-16 21:30 ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-19 6:21 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-19 16:41 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-02-20 0:33 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-12 4:28 ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-19 15:27 ` Mark Lord
2009-02-20 0:32 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-20 2:52 ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-20 3:26 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-01 19:31 ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-01 20:28 ` Alan Cox
2009-02-11 20:24 ` Chuck Ebbert
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