From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Arve Knudsen" Subject: Re: System freeze when transferring large files (libata) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:44:02 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <40EFEAE4.3060201@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mail.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.2]:5099 "EHLO mail.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266837AbUGLNmZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:42:25 -0400 Received: from mail.broadpark.no (37.80-203-48.nextgentel.com [80.203.48.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C612B59 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:42:54 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <40EFEAE4.3060201@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org I switched ports/cables, and lockup (DMA timeout) still occurs with the Maxtor only. I take it we can rule out the possibility of a quirk related to the combination Promise/Maxtor? Looks like I'll be replacing this drive with a Seagate soon. Regards Arve Knudsen On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:11:00 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Arve Knudsen wrote: >> I thought I'd add that this is on an Asus A7N8X-X motherboard, and the >> filesystem is ext3. >> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:03:18 +0200, Arve Knudsen >> wrote: >> >>> I've been having this problem lately when transferring large amounts >>> of data to my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA 120GB drive, which is >>> connected to a Promise SATA150 TX2 Plus controller. It happened once >>> with an -mm kernel, but I figured it was probably down to instability >>> in the -mm patchset. However it just happened to me again with a >>> vanilla 2.6.6 kernel, when untarring a backup. The system froze >>> completely, I couldn't even use alt+sysrq+b to reboot. Are there any >>> known issues with the Promise driver that can lead to such lockups? >>> I've recently run a disc check which found no problems (it wasn't >>> Maxtor's own though, but Seagate's as the Maxtor tools won't work >>> with the controller). > > > No known bugs at least. Promise seems to be more stable than most, in > fact. > > Maybe you have an intermittent problem with your SATA cables. > > Jeff > >