Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Schwarz wrote: More than ever, I am convinced that it is actually a hardware problem, but I am curious for the opinions of both of you on whether the system (meaning, I guess, the combination of usb-storage driver and raid) is really doing the best with what it has. See below, but

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Schwarz
I'm going to hang on to the hardware. This is a pilot/demo that may lead to development of a new device, and, if so, I'll be getting back into device driver writing. Working this problem would be great practice for that. So I will do it. The only problem is I don't know when! I believe I can

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-19 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Michael Schwarz wrote: I'm going to hang on to the hardware. This is a pilot/demo that may lead to development of a new device, and, if so, I'll be getting back into device driver writing. Working this problem would be great practice for that. So I will do it. The only

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Schwarz
Comments below. -- Michael Schwarz On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Michael Schwarz wrote: I'm going to hang on to the hardware. This is a pilot/demo that may lead to development of a new device, and, if so, I'll be getting back into device driver writing. Working this problem would be great practice

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-19 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Michael Schwarz wrote: Yeah; But here was where I lacked confidence. I used to know every inch of my kernel and my hardware, but, as previously stated, that was back in the 2.2.x days. I wasn't confident that I could run my hardware with a plain-vanilla kernel or that I

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-18 Thread Michael Schwarz
As I suspected, majordomo doesn't like attachments. I looked through the logs. The only odd thing I see before the read that hangs is this message: smartd[3069]: Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Which I only see in /var/log/messages because the stack dump blows

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-18 Thread Michael Schwarz
Just tried in on a stock Ubuntu Edgy install. Same thing. Locks on read. I've got a dmesg (w/stack trace) file from the ubuntu attempt (it was clean prior to doing the read) which I will send to Alan and Neil (any anyone else who asks for it). There were no error messages in dmesg prior to

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday March 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cp -rv /mnt/* fs2d2/ At this point, the process hangs. So I ran: echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger dmesg dmesg-5-hungread.log Unfortunate (as you say) the whole trace doesn't fit. Could you try compiling the kernel with a larger value for

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-18 Thread Michael Schwarz
More than ever, I am convinced that it is actually a hardware problem, but I am curious for the opinions of both of you on whether the system (meaning, I guess, the combination of usb-storage driver and raid) is really doing the best with what it has. My last effort was to switch to a different

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Michael Schwarz wrote: Neil: Relevant stack trace follows. Any suggestions? blk_backing_dev_unplug... Does that mean the raid subsystem thinks one of the usb drives has been removed? I assure you that physically this is untrue, but that doesn't mean that some sort

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Schwarz
Comments/questions below... -- Michael Schwarz This isn't much help. The important processes here are khubd, usb-storage, and scsi_eh_*. Possibly some raid-related processes too, but I don't know which they would be. I have no copy khubd running. What is the list policy on attachments?

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Michael Schwarz wrote: Comments/questions below... -- Michael Schwarz This isn't much help. The important processes here are khubd, usb-storage, and scsi_eh_*. Possibly some raid-related processes too, but I don't know which they would be. I have no copy

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-17 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Michael Schwarz wrote: Nasty big stack trace set follows: This format is kind of awkward. For one thing, a lot of lines were wrapped by your email program. For another, you copied the stack trace from the syslog log file. That is not a good way to do it; syslogd is

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Failed reads from RAID-0 array (from newbie who has read the FAQ)

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Schwarz
Yeah, I understand that. Sorry, I use squirrelmail. Pretty limited... I'll get you a raw dmseg output when I replicate the problem. Let me clarify on khubd: There is such an entry in my process table, but there was no kernel thread stack trace for it when I dumped the traces. I don't know if