Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759426AbXFUR5J (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:57:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756422AbXFUR44 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:56:56 -0400 Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:64557 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756066AbXFUR4z (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:56:55 -0400 Message-ID: <467ABC4D.5010004@ru.mvista.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:58:37 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Linas Vepstas , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Stuart_Hayes@dell.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup References: <20070618175713.GD5836@austin.ibm.com> <4677FFF1.2010308@ru.mvista.com> <20070619164854.GR5836@austin.ibm.com> <200706192043.40298.bzolnier@gmail.com> <46783777.10607@ru.mvista.com> <20070620162845.GY5836@austin.ibm.com> <20070620180123.642316ae@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070620180123.642316ae@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 29 Hello. Alan Cox wrote: >>Google seems to show that there is no publically available >>firmware updates for Maxtor disks. > There are for some but only if you irritate the tech support people. >>hours at high cpu usage.... There were maybe a a dozen DriveReady >>SeekComplete Timeout errors clustered a few minutes apart. > That suggests the drive is having problems occassionally and that the DMA > path code then blows up when they occur. >>Is there a way of viewing the contents of he command queue on >>the hard drive, to see if the command actually made it across? > queue ? You are overestimating IDE ;) He's not -- there is queued commands support since ATA[PI]-5. I'm not sure why but Linux decided not to support it. MBR, Sergei - 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/