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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: bart@samwel.tk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Laptop mode causing writes to wrong sectors?
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:20:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051118232019.GA2359@spitz.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437E215E.30500@tmr.com>

Hi!

> >Can you try some filesystem test while forcing disk spindowns via
> >hdparm?
> >
> >It may be bug in laptop mode, or a bug in ide (or something
> >related)... trying spindowns without laptopmode would be helpful.
> >
> I don't know if it would be helpful, but I run several servers with 
> multiple drives, usually 4-5, some of which are in RAID and some aren't, 
> and they all spin down and restart without problems many times a day. 
> The kernel is 2.6.14.? with one patch to get my unsupported VIA IDE working.
> 
> My laptop also has a spindown (five min from memory) and I have yet to 
> have a problem with it. Don't know if any of that is "spindowns without 
> laptopmode" in a useful sense.

Unless you can also reproduce the failure... no, probably does not help
much.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-18 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 18:16 Laptop mode causing writes to wrong sectors? Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-16 20:06 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-16 21:42   ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-17  9:25     ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 10:33       ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-17 11:36         ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-18 18:45   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-18 23:20     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-11-19  8:39       ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-19  9:26         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-19 11:10           ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-19 14:05         ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-19 15:30           ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-19 23:29             ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-19 23:45               ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-21  2:09       ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-17 13:22 Bradley Chapman
2005-11-17 14:27 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 15:41   ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-17 16:05     ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 16:22   ` Bradley Chapman
2005-11-17 21:22     ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 22:50       ` Bradley Chapman
2005-11-20 21:30 ` Pavel Machek

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