Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> I don't believe that. Command timeouts never happen on healthy systems, >> unless we have a driver bug. Okay, so I can imagine a pathological case >> of a full queue (NCQ) with all 32 commands taking longer than usual due >> to ECC retries in the

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: I don't believe that. Command timeouts never happen on healthy systems, unless we have a driver bug. Okay, so I can imagine a pathological case of a full queue (NCQ) with all 32 commands taking longer than usual due to ECC retries in the firmware.. It's not quite so black

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. ata1: command timeout Feb 19 20:39:31 linux kernel: ata1: no sense translation for status: 0x40 Feb 19 20:39:31 linux kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Feb 19

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. ata1: command timeout Feb 19 20:39:31 linux kernel: ata1: no sense translation for status: 0x40 Feb 19 20:39:31 linux kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x40/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Feb 19

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: I don't believe that. Command timeouts never happen on healthy systems, unless we have a driver bug. Okay, so I can imagine a pathological case of a full queue (NCQ) with all 32 commands taking longer than usual due to ECC retries in the firmware.. It's not quite so black

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I don't believe that. Command timeouts never happen on healthy systems, unless we have a driver bug. Okay, so I can imagine a pathological case of a full queue (NCQ) with all 32 commands taking longer than usual due to ECC retries in the firmware..

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-19 Thread Marc Marais
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:07:50 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been running 2.6.18 for two months and the last couple of days these > > error messages have appeared in my logs > > (sata_promise kernel module, sda:SATA sdb:PATA disks): > > > >

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-19 Thread Tejun Heo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have been running 2.6.18 for two months and the last couple of days these > error messages have appeared in my logs > (sata_promise kernel module, sda:SATA sdb:PATA disks): > >ata1: command timeout > Feb 17

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-19 Thread Tejun Heo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been running 2.6.18 for two months and the last couple of days these error messages have appeared in my logs (sata_promise kernel module, sda:SATA sdb:PATA disks): ata1: command timeout Feb 17

Re: ata command timeout

2007-02-19 Thread Marc Marais
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:07:50 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been running 2.6.18 for two months and the last couple of days these error messages have appeared in my logs (sata_promise kernel module, sda:SATA sdb:PATA disks):