a disk timeout and a disk state

2007-09-04 Thread Raz
Jeff Hello We have in our machines several sata (mostly maxtor-segate) disks in an array. These disks generate too many ata-io errors at clients sites. From raid1 code I have learned that a re-write sometimes fixes a disk. Question: Why ? Question: Does it always work ? Question: Does rewriting

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8976] New: Regression (ata_piix): Kernel panic during driver initialization

2007-09-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andrew Morton writes: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:40:10 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8976 This one is apparantly a post-2.6.22 regression. The ata_piix oops at init bug in 2.6.23-rc5 has already been fixed. There's a link to the patch at

Re: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed

2007-09-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Favrholdt writes: Hi, Below some more info on my two systems: Mikael Pettersson wrote: I assume the PE1800 has some Intel chipset? Which one? ... :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) :00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC

pata_pdc202xx_old bug? (ATA bus error)

2007-09-04 Thread n
anyone come up with a patch/fix for this? i also tried this drive on the system ide ports and it worked fine (also uses libata drivers, nforce2), it seems to be something wrong in the pata_pdc202xx_old code. what can i do to get this fixed? the drive is a seagate. i dont know what res

ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel J Blueman
We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs. Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs specified as Intel [1], this is unusable. I can't find another existing mechanism to add short cable

Re: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed

2007-09-04 Thread Peter Favrholdt
Mikael Pettersson wrote: nForce2. Hmm.. Peter Favrholdt wrote: 11: 27474XT-PIC-XTlibata, libata, ohci_hcd:usb3, NVidia nForce2 That mystery device makes me strongly suspect that you've loaded the binary-only nvidia drivers. If that's true, then the machine's problems

Re: CF as IDE on ICH6M using libata

2007-09-04 Thread Eddie Hung
On 03/09/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eddie Hung wrote: I am pursuing another possibility: the CF card is not a genuine Sandisk one at all, especially as it was off eBay! I compared my hdparm -I with the one in the thread above (which as I've found out is a Sandisk Extreme II

Re: sata_promise: port is slow to respond, reset failed

2007-09-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Favrholdt writes: Mikael Pettersson wrote: nForce2. Hmm.. Peter Favrholdt wrote: 11: 27474XT-PIC-XTlibata, libata, ohci_hcd:usb3, NVidia nForce2 That mystery device makes me strongly suspect that you've loaded the binary-only nvidia drivers.

RE: [PATCH 6/7] blk_end_request: remove/unexport end_that_request_*

2007-09-04 Thread Halevy, Benny
Boaz raised my attention to this patchset today... We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call end_that_request_chunk on req-next_rq and never end_that_request_last. (see

Re: [PATCH 6/7] blk_end_request: remove/unexport end_that_request_*

2007-09-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Halevy, Benny wrote: Boaz raised my attention to this patchset today... We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call end_that_request_chunk on req-next_rq and never

Re: [PATCH 1/7] blk_end_request: add new request completion interface

2007-09-04 Thread Kiyoshi Ueda
Hi Jens, Thank you for the comments. On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:45:45 +0200, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +extern int blk_end_request(struct request *rq, int uptodate, int nr_bytes); +extern int __blk_end_request(struct request *rq, int uptodate, int nr_bytes); extern int

Re: MDADM restart at system boot time

2007-09-04 Thread Richard Scobie
Paul wrote: Hi, I hope someone can help. I have manually installed mdadm and now have a working array. I installed mdadm from the tarball, then did 'make install' My problem is after system reboot the array will not start as the daemon is not running, I guess. In order to access my files

Re: [PATCH 6/7] blk_end_request: remove/unexport end_that_request_*

2007-09-04 Thread Kiyoshi Ueda
Hi, On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:25:14 -0400, Halevy, Benny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call end_that_request_chunk on req-next_rq and never end_that_request_last.

Re: pata_via cd/dvd timeout problems

2007-09-04 Thread Vlad
Hi, I have both a dvd RW drive a cd rom drive connected the second ide interface on my motherboard with a via chipset, using pata_via I see timeout messages in the log after some time both drives lockup and are unable to mount any disks. I would suggest trying the following things: 1)

Re: pata_via cd/dvd timeout problems

2007-09-04 Thread fredm
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Re: pata_via cd/dvd timeout problems

2007-09-04 Thread fredm
(take 2) Hi, Quoting Vlad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have both a dvd RW drive a cd rom drive connected the second ide interface on my motherboard with a via chipset, using pata_via I see timeout messages in the log after some time both drives lockup and are unable to mount any disks. Just a me