Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751705AbWCIQyM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:54:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751799AbWCIQyL (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:54:11 -0500 Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:27407 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751705AbWCIQyK (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:54:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 16:53:57 +0000 From: Martin Michlmayr To: Alan Cox Cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors Message-ID: <20060309165357.GB10572@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <5Okau-77g-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <440FA916.5070703@shaw.ca> <20060309151459.GD2891@deprecation.cyrius.com> <1141922743.16745.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1141922743.16745.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 17 * Alan Cox [2006-03-09 16:45]: > Ancient known problem. I'd be interested if you can however break > libata and the PATA IDE patches the same way. I can try, but like I said, the hard drive acts pretty arbitrarily and won't always fail when I want it to. Do you know if there's a way to trigger the problem? Otherwise I'll just try a couple of times, but without a good way to trigger the problem I cannot really say if it's gone with libata. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ - 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/