From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965080AbWCUTWo (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:22:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965078AbWCUTWo (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:22:44 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:35215 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965075AbWCUTWm (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:22:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4420527F.5060703@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:22:39 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060305 SeaMonkey/1.1a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sander@humilis.net Cc: Linus Torvalds , Mark Lord , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.xx: sata_mv: another critical fix References: <441F4F95.4070203@garzik.org> <200603210000.36552.lkml@rtr.ca> <20060321121354.GB24977@favonius> <442004E4.7010002@rtr.ca> <20060321153708.GA11703@favonius> <20060321191547.GC20426@favonius> In-Reply-To: <20060321191547.GC20426@favonius> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sander wrote: .. > Btw, it always seems to crash during the md5sum of this test: > > for i in `seq 4` > do dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile.$i bs=1024k count=10000 > dd if=bigfile.$i of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=10000 > done > time md5sum bigfile.* > time rm bigfile.* > > One time during many tests I needed to run this twice before it went > bellyup. The Fed-Ex guy just dropped off a 6081 PCI-X card for me, so testing here have now gotten a lot easier, as I can now test drivers on something other than the root filesystem drive. I'll set things up and try to reproduce those failures here, eventually. Cheers