I was mistaken earlier: the 4 drives are not exactly the same, there is 2 6B200M0 one 6B200S0 and one 6Y200M0. This should be irrelevant as I have swapped disks and wires and the problem happens anyway. One interesting thing: in init 1 the timeout seems to appear faster, after about 200GB in the case with the omission. I would be inclined to think this is some sort of a deadlock or race condition: the kernel does not dump or panic, it just hangs on pdc_eng_timeout. When we dumped the stack in that function, all we had was pdc_eng_timeout, as there seems to a be a separate thread per disk that gets waken up for error handling.
Any ideas on how we can catch this one? TIA, Francois - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
