Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759529AbXKNWbT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:31:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754110AbXKNWbI (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:31:08 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4173 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753174AbXKNWbH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:31:07 -0500 Message-ID: <473B7729.1070703@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:31:05 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Morrison, Tom" Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations References: <45ED682A.9040408@garzik.org> <4728A816.8020608@garzik.org> <473B36D7.8000205@rtr.ca> <473B44CB.6010209@rtr.ca> <473B76E0.7010500@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <473B76E0.7010500@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 35 Mark Lord wrote: > Morrison, Tom wrote: >> 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! > .. > > Okay, a couple of things: > > Do this from a text console, not a GUI. > And preferably without ever starting klogd/syslogd during init. > > That way you've a much better chance of seeing some kernel diagnostic > messages when it locks up. > > Can you boot with "nomsi" kernel parameter? > And I guess we'll need to see the entire kernel .config as well. ... And also a copy of the full kernel log messages from boot up until just before you run the lockup sequence. Thanks - 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/