From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Subject: Re: hdparm and disc errors References: <4vr8t0veui.fsf@darbujan.fzu.cz> <20010921142218.5696@smtp.adsl.oleane.com> From: Jiri Masik Date: 24 Sep 2001 11:40:45 +0200 Message-ID: <4vhett0vvm.fsf@darbujan.fzu.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > >Do you think it is a real disc failure or is anything wrong with the > >hdparm setting? Is the unmasking dangerous for Pismo? > > That's weird. Note that there are chances that 2.2 lockup on such IDE errors. > > The driver did evolve slightly, but not in a way that explains your problem. > > Ben. Hi Ben, it does not happen with 2.2 at all. I think there was a change in the driver before 2.4.8-ben0. This is the first kernel I tried which actually reports the error. Before that I had 2.4.7-ben0 and 2.4.6-pre8 which were crashing without anything reported. I guess it was caused by the disc as well as the crash was accompanied by the sound of repeated access to a faulty floppy disc. Jiri ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/