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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:37:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141929425.16745.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060309165357.GB10572@deprecation.cyrius.com>

On Iau, 2006-03-09 at 16:53 +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [2006-03-09 16:45]:
> > Ancient known problem. I'd be interested if you can however break
> > libata and the PATA IDE patches the same way.
> 
> I can try, but like I said, the hard drive acts pretty arbitrarily and
> won't always fail when I want it to.  Do you know if there's a way to
> trigger the problem?  Otherwise I'll just try a couple of times,
> but without a good way to trigger the problem I cannot really say if
> it's gone with libata.

You could try heavy I/O (find / -print type stuff), or if its specific
problem blocks then cp /dev/hda (/dev/sda for libata) /dev/null.

Libata should either error correctly or recover cleanly from the
problems.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-09 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5Okau-77g-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-09  4:03 ` Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors Robert Hancock
2006-03-09 15:14   ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-09 16:45     ` Alan Cox
2006-03-09 16:53       ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-09 18:37         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-03-27  7:06       ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-09  3:29 Martin Michlmayr

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