Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754768AbYJ2UwT (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:52:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753165AbYJ2UwI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:52:08 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.191]:55798 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752763AbYJ2UwH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:52:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=SiiL62wkqVexy4nbNsiPouGNgCR8hVTxiFembqawex6VZjyfIXVcP3x96KC/8oHT9/ W7a1ZwOPbCHZFDVsQWD/FdGhg8NmcOGkT0mdkYRKSw0whulQ0sU/u9uaw96RyMMAE1SU P9F5uzXB72UDhzMlRPsy4Omy9vxq3XAIhVlfg= Message-ID: <7a9b5c320810291352k5db86a4eg4e03fb09317de459@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:52:04 +1300 From: "Phillip O'Donnell" To: "Ric Wheeler" Subject: Re: sata errors with Seagate 1.5TB on AMD 780G/SB700 motherboard Cc: "Alan Cox" , "Oskar Liljeblad" , "Robert Hancock" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4908C62E.5070307@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49079E09.20703@shaw.ca> <20081029185856.GA8152@osk.mine.nu> <20081029201724.0a7d736e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4908C62E.5070307@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 22 Hi Ric, Not too sure about that - I run with XFS, which announces that it disables the barriers on my devices (I use LVM on top of them) but still get the same issue... Unless I've misunderstood your comment? Cheers, Phillip > I suspect that the drive is simply choking on the barrier related cache > flushing that we do - that seemed to be the MacOS error as well. The windows > comment suggested that windows had an hba/driver bug (most likely unrelated > to this). > > If you want to avoid the issue until they fix the drive, you could run fast > and dangerous (mount without barriers on) or slow and safe (disable the > write cache). -- 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/