Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751228AbWCQJzL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:55:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751283AbWCQJzL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:55:11 -0500 Received: from smtp6.libero.it ([193.70.192.59]:6875 "EHLO smtp6.libero.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbWCQJzK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:55:10 -0500 From: To: "'Samuel Masham'" Cc: Subject: R: libata/sata errors on ich[?]/maxtor Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:55:03 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <93564eb70603162201l856be5al@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 42 Hi Samuel, All > some value in adding my information here... I will be adding this to > redhats bugzilla ... soon ;) > >see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185724 > > What seems to happen is that mkfs will try and write to the drive > using the normal > from bugzilla: >Writing inode tables: 733/1247 > >....and then no more (actually since the update the block number we stick on >has moved slightly) yes, we experimented the same absolutely reproducible behaviour, the system hangs - better, processes involving i/o hang - after a few timeouts and cannot be brought down other than hard resetting it. Our mileage can vary... We use vanilla kernels on slackware-current distribution (see ver_linux in previous post). Tryed: 2.6.15 2.6.15.6 2.6.16-rc4 2.6.16-rc6 Mauro - 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/