From: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>, Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:02:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9C30D9.8090302@interlog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9C1F95.5000509@hardwarefreak.com>
On 10-09-23 11:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Kyle McMartin put forth on 9/23/2010 8:37 PM:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:51:48PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> ~$ man hdparm
>>>
>>
>> kyle@dreadnought ~ $ hdparm
>> hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters - version v9.27, by Mark Lord.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> [...]
>
> Please pardon me while I wipe this egg off my face. :)
>
> My apologies Mark. Please feel free to publicly flog me if you wish.
I wonder if Mark every watched a program called
Sledge Hammer! whose signature line was "Trust me.
I know what I'm doing." Recently I needed to plead
with hdparm to corrupt a sector as follows:
# hdparm --make-bad-sector 976770000 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sdb
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 23:41 "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent? Mark Lord
2010-09-24 0:05 ` Douglas Gilbert
2010-09-24 2:53 ` Mark Lord
2010-09-24 3:51 ` Mark Lord
2010-09-24 9:12 ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-24 13:51 ` [PATCH] block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O Mark Lord
2010-09-24 13:52 ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-24 4:41 ` "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent? Douglas Gilbert
2010-09-24 0:51 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-24 1:37 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-09-24 3:48 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-24 5:02 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2010-09-24 5:31 ` Mark Lord
2010-09-24 6:22 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-24 6:30 ` hdparm-9.32 released: recommended upgrade Mark Lord
2010-09-24 1:58 ` "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent? Maxim Levitsky
2010-09-24 2:08 ` Kyle McMartin
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