From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756232Ab0IXAvu (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:51:50 -0400 Received: from mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net ([65.41.216.221]:54689 "EHLO greer.hardwarefreak.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438Ab0IXAvt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:51:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9BF624.7090906@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:51:48 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Linux Kernel , IDE/ATA development list , linux-scsi Subject: Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent? References: <4C9BE5A8.1090002@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: <4C9BE5A8.1090002@teksavvy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord put forth on 9/23/2010 6:41 PM: > What's the purpose of this stack dump, > and how can it be prevented in this NORMAL situation?? > > The command was "hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdb", > which takes about 66 minutes to complete on this particular drive. > > I don't see any obvious way for the task to mark itself > as needing longer than 120 secs to complete the operation. ~$ man hdparm ATA Security Feature Set These switches are DANGEROUS to experiment with, and might not work with every kernel. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. --security-erase PWD THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT WELL TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. -- Stan