Re: New libata PATA patch for 2.6.16-rc1

[Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>]

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:24, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Llu, 2006-03-13 at 17:13 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>>> However, I just tried the same driver on my desktop PC (4xSATA HDs,
>>> 1xPATA) and I get the following periodically (when the PATA device is NOT
>>> being used):
>> Can you try the vanilla rc6 kernel to check, and if it does it then let
>> Jeff Garzik known ASAP - especially if rc4 was ok.
>>
>>> ata1: irq trap
> 
> No such error without your patch on this machine. I've got a RAID5 spanning 
> four SATA drives on a dual core Athlon 64, and it'll happily do 185MB/s 
> to /dev/null with the command:
> 
> for FILE in *; do dd if="$FILE" of=/dev/null bs=1M; done
> 
> 300,000 interrupts later, still no messages. Anything I can do to isolate this 
> further?
> 

I'd like to second this. On -rc5-ide{1,2} I didn't have any trouble, but now on 
-rc6-ide1 I keep getting the messages on all 4 of my SATA drives (2 on sata_via, 
2 on sata_sil). I haven't tried with vanilla -rc6 but let me know if that can help.

HTH,
Chris

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