From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755127AbYIPRh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752838AbYIPRhR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:17 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:40312 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752524AbYIPRhQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:37:16 -0400 Message-ID: <48CFEE51.2070200@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:35:13 -0700 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= CC: Linux Kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord Subject: Re: XFS shutting down due to IO timeout on SATA disk (pata_via for CX700) References: <20080911193511.7960bc82@neptune.home> <48CE22E5.9090403@kernel.org> <20080915190242.58d21a8f@neptune.home> <48CEC8F2.4040904@kernel.org> <20080916102152.3f35439f@pluto.restena.lu> In-Reply-To: <20080916102152.3f35439f@pluto.restena.lu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Bruno Prémont wrote: > I don't have other drives of the same model, but 3 ones slightly smaller > in size and previous generation, those are just a few months older (but > also have way more uptime), see below for the smartctl output. I've never > seen ATA errors on them. > These other drives are running on AMD based platform, SB600 SATA with AHCI. So, smartctl output seems fine. > Just for the record, on the VIA there were no errors yet with > 2.6.27-rc6-git3 though I ran some compiling on it. As such it *could* be > that one of the patches pushed by Jeff helped: > [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h > sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking > ata: duplicate variable sparse warning The only patch which could have affected the result is the off-by-one one; however, FLUSH timeout is a bit unexpected failure mode for the problem. Can you please keep the system running for a whlie and see whether the problem occurs? Thanks. -- tejun