From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752095AbWFWVl5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:41:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752097AbWFWVl5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:41:57 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:27571 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752095AbWFWVl5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:41:57 -0400 Message-ID: <449C6023.9010204@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:41:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hamish CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: SATA hangs... References: <200606232134.42231.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> In-Reply-To: <200606232134.42231.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hamish wrote: > Hi. > > I'm having problems with a SATA drive on an ASUS A8V deluxe > motherboard under kernel 2.6.17... In fact it's happened under > every (Vanilla) kernel I've ever run on this server (Back to 2.6.14). > (It's just over a year old. It didn't used to experience the same load > as it does now, so I'm currently assuming it's load related... > > The box is a 3GB memory, Barton core AMD64 3200+, with a 30GB IDE (IDE0), > 160GB IDE (IDE1) and a 200GB SATA drive. > > After anywhere between a few minutes (Rare) and several hundred hours > of uptime, access to filesystems on the SATA drive stop in mid flow > (Almost always under light to heavy load. e.g. watching mythtv from > a saved .mpg on a reiserfs filesystem on an LVM2 volume). > > I've tried the SATA drive on two different SATA ports as well. ata0 & ata1. Does -mm give you better behavior? Jeff