Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261198AbTIRLpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:45:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261199AbTIRLpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:45:05 -0400 Received: from pf138.torun.sdi.tpnet.pl ([213.76.207.138]:4109 "EHLO centaur.culm.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261198AbTIRLo7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:44:59 -0400 From: Witold Krecicki To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SII SATA request size limit Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:44:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <200309112357.41592.eu@marcelopenna.org> <200309121946.31810.adasi@kernel.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200309181344.57130.adasi@kernel.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1506 Lines: 30 Dnia pon 15. wrze?nia 2003 12:12, Adam Jones napisa?: > In a futile gesture against entropy, Witold Krecicki wrote: > > I've lost some of mails about siimage on LKML, but Im' getting more and > > more confused about 'hangs' probably caused by siimage driver. I was > > using 15 rqsize, now 128 - doesn't matter. It happens in random moments - > > sometimes at boot time when drive is fscked, sometimes when I'm trying to > > copy large amount of data and sometimes without any particular reason > > after several hours. > > Out of interest, do you have some sort of SCSI controller in your > system as well? I've got a SiI3112 card and I get a hard lock-up pretty > much as soon as anything touches the SCSI bus on my aic7xxx card. > Disabling DMA on the SiI IDE channel seems to work around it, at the > cost of a lot of performance... (this is on stock 2.4.22, BTW) No, only on-board nForce2 IDE controller. Disabling ACPI helped. - now it's stable > Setting rqsize to 128 seems perfectly stable for me - my drive reports > itself as a ST380013AS (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 80GB). I use 128 too, and I've got 2xST3120026AS (Barracuda 7200.7 120GB) in software RAID0 -- Witold Kr?cicki (adasi) adasi [at] culm.net GPG key: 7AE20871 http://www.culm.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/