Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-11-01 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! (Please Cc) I alsohave to report a very similar incident. Debian/sid, kernel 2.6.22. Doing some hard work for the disk (svn up of two big repositories, some copying of files, etc etc). Suddently the PC froze. Nothing, I had to reboot. But then: - BIOS didn't detect the disks, or better,

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-11-01 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! (Please Cc) I alsohave to report a very similar incident. Debian/sid, kernel 2.6.22. Doing some hard work for the disk (svn up of two big repositories, some copying of files, etc etc). Suddently the PC froze. Nothing, I had to reboot. But then: - BIOS didn't detect the disks, or better,

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-31 Thread Chris Holvenstot
First, let me thank you for your response, and apologize for taking so long to get back to you. I have not been able to "cut loose" from my day job for the past several days as I have been completly tied up loading and configuring a dozen Thinkpads scheduled to be sacraficed next week. With this

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-31 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:25:54AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: > > 3. fsck -p on boot failed > > > > (it is very probable not many files were corrupted at this stage) > > Maybe... The system wouldn't have worked as it did, if there

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-31 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: > 3. fsck -p on boot failed > > (it is very probable not many files were corrupted at this stage) Maybe... > > 4. I ran fsck.ext3 -y > > => that corrupted lots and lots of files. This went > into a loop, the fsck.ext3 restarted

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-31 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: 3. fsck -p on boot failed (it is very probable not many files were corrupted at this stage) Maybe... 4. I ran fsck.ext3 -y = that corrupted lots and lots of files. This went into a loop, the fsck.ext3 restarted checking

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-31 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:25:54AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: 3. fsck -p on boot failed (it is very probable not many files were corrupted at this stage) Maybe... The system wouldn't have worked as it did, if there were so

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-31 Thread Chris Holvenstot
First, let me thank you for your response, and apologize for taking so long to get back to you. I have not been able to cut loose from my day job for the past several days as I have been completly tied up loading and configuring a dozen Thinkpads scheduled to be sacraficed next week. With this

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-30 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:21:52PM -0500, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > In each case the failure mode appears to have been the same ??? the system > appears to lock up. When rebooted I get a long string of messages like: > > > Oct 26 20:07:37 localhost kernel: [ 101.581091] ata2: timeout waiting >

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-30 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:21:52PM -0500, Chris Holvenstot wrote: In each case the failure mode appears to have been the same ??? the system appears to lock up. When rebooted I get a long string of messages like: Oct 26 20:07:37 localhost kernel: [ 101.581091] ata2: timeout waiting for

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Chris Holvenstot wrote: I am curious if anyone else has had major problems with SATA drives on the current series of kernels. I have (or rather had) two SATA drives on my system - the first was a Maxtor MaxLine 500 and the second was a Maxtor MaxLine 250. Both of these drives were plugged to

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Chris Holvenstot wrote: I am curious if anyone else has had major problems with SATA drives on the current series of kernels. I have (or rather had) two SATA drives on my system - the first was a Maxtor MaxLine 500 and the second was a Maxtor MaxLine 250. Both of these drives were plugged to

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-27 Thread Clemens Koller
Chris Holvenstot schrieb: I am curious if anyone else has had major problems with SATA drives on the current series of kernels. I have (or rather had) two SATA drives on my system - the first was a Maxtor MaxLine 500 and the second was a Maxtor MaxLine 250. [...] If harddisks get too hot they

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:21:52 -0500 Chris Holvenstot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My SATA controller is integrated on my MSI motherboard and sports four > ports. It is implemented using the Nvidia CK804 chipset. My processor > is an AMD64 X2 4600+ running the 32 bit version of Linux. > > I

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:21:52 -0500 Chris Holvenstot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My SATA controller is integrated on my MSI motherboard and sports four ports. It is implemented using the Nvidia CK804 chipset. My processor is an AMD64 X2 4600+ running the 32 bit version of Linux. I have had

Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?

2007-10-27 Thread Clemens Koller
Chris Holvenstot schrieb: I am curious if anyone else has had major problems with SATA drives on the current series of kernels. I have (or rather had) two SATA drives on my system - the first was a Maxtor MaxLine 500 and the second was a Maxtor MaxLine 250. [...] If harddisks get too hot they