Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764812AbXKNVYk (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:24:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759461AbXKNVYV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:24:21 -0500 Received: from empbedex1.empirix.com ([12.38.203.54]:13580 "EHLO empbedex1.empirix.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758894AbXKNVYU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:24:20 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:12:21 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <473B44CB.6010209@rtr.ca> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Thread-Index: Acgm8BfGy+LYypAzRlqMVmh3tUUhwwAEmdkA References: <45ED682A.9040408@garzik.org> <4728A816.8020608@garzik.org> <473B36D7.8000205@rtr.ca> <473B44CB.6010209@rtr.ca> From: "Morrison, Tom" To: "Mark Lord" Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Nov 2007 21:12:28.0444 (UTC) FILETIME=[0FDAC5C0:01C82703] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1607 Lines: 55 I have gotten it to boot from those hard-drives and it has the same behavior: Copying a large file to the same partition (>150MEG) causes the system to hang (no I/O - no input/output - nothing - complete freeze - like a primary resource is locked up or interrupts got completely & totally turned off in an ISR and its pending for something? Only way to get out of this is to power-cycle the box! @#$@#$#@ -----Original Message----- > ::: Can you give me exact details of how to set up and reproduce this? > ::: -- Kernel version > > Linux-2.6.23.1 > > NOTE: I am using ppc (arch/ppc instead of arch/powerpc) > > ::: -- number/config/model of drives > > 2x250GIG Western Digital - 3 partitions (largest (/dev/sda3 > ~200Gig - formatted to ext2). > > 7042 PEX on a MPC8548 Board > > ::: -- exact command line sequence to cause the failure > > NFS mount root file system (I am currently rebuild to take away > the NFS file system dependency) - /dev/sda3 is drive in question... .. MMmm.. I'd like to see that again without the rootfs-on-NFS. What exactly do you mean when you say "it just hangs" ? Everything (dead system)? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - 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/