From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Test feedback 2.6.17.4+libata-tj-stable (EH, hotplug) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:08:17 -0400 Message-ID: <44BBD211.9030501@tmr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Pernegger Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Christian Pernegger wrote: > I finally got around to testing 2.6.17.4 with libata-tj-stable-20060710. > > Hardware: ICH7R in ahci mode + WD5000YS's. > > EH: much, much better. Before the patch it seemed like errors were > only printed to dmesg but never handed up to any layer above. Now md > actually fails the disk when I pull the (power) plug. I'll try my bad > cable once I can find it. > > Hotplug: Unplugging was fine, took about 15s until the driver gave up > on the disk. After re-plugging the driver had to hard-reset the port > once to get the disk back, though that might be by design. > > The fact that the disk had changed minor numbers after it was plugged > back in bugs me a bit. (was sdc before, sde after). Additionally udev > removed the sdc device file, so I had to manually recreate it to be > able to remove the 'faulty' disk from its md array. > > Thanks for a great patch! I just hope it doesn't eat my data :) And thank you for testing! -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979