From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751957AbZIBLvq (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:51:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751899AbZIBLvp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:51:45 -0400 Received: from mail.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.35]:47711 "EHLO mail.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbZIBLvh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:51:37 -0400 From: Ondrej Zary To: Raphael Manfredi Subject: Re: [2.6.30.5] Diagnosing an IDE lockup with SMART long tests Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:51:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <6661.1251822466@nice.ram.loc> <4A9DF3E9.9090309@gmail.com> <20090902111927.GA4590@chram.org> In-Reply-To: <20090902111927.GA4590@chram.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909021351.33803.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > Quoting Robert Hancock: > > It's most likely a bug in the IDE code somewhere, but realistically the > > most effective course of action would likely be to switch from the old > > IDE drivers and use libata instead. The IDE code doesn't receive that > > much testing these days, and it's really hard to debug (as you've seen, > > the debugging output is rather atrocious). > > I gave it a shot anyway. Converting to PATA was surprisingly > straighforward. > > Anyway, I now get the following when running SMART long tests on /dev/sda: > > ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50) > > And the machine hangs... So I'm back to square one. > How do I prevent lockups on the system when running SMART long tests? What drive is that? Isn't that an IBM drive with buggy firmware? -- Ondrej Zary