Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932337AbVJQVMt (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:12:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932339AbVJQVMt (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:12:49 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:5013 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932337AbVJQVMs (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:12:48 -0400 X-Authenticated: #20450766 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:11:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: Peter Osterlund cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [2.6.13] pktcdvd: IO-errors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 883 Lines: 21 On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote: > I have found a problem on one of my drives. On my FC4 system, hald and > kded are constantly doing something with the drive, and this makes it > fail when I try to do packet writing. Killing those processes make > that drive work correctly. Maybe this helps in your case too. Try > packet writing from single user mode to see if it helps. Sell, it's Sarge here, so, I doubt there's something similar running, but I'll verify it anyway. Also, booting into S has another side effect on the system - lower background load, fewer context switches... Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - 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/