Re: sync hanging on a 10 gig ide drive

Horvath Karoly (rh@hold.sch.bme.hu)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:09:21 +0100


On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 02:01:49PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:
> I have a friend with a RedHat 5.0 system. It has patches installed up to
> whatever was current in June. (Kernel 2.0.32)
>
> The drive is a 10 gig ide drive with Linux on the first 6 gig and the rest is
> Win 95. He has about 180 megs of ram on the box.
>
> When a sync command is issued, you can hear the drive sync, but the sync
> command never returns back to the prompt. `kill -9` will not kill the hung
> sync process.
>
> I am going to upgrade his system to a later version of RedHat, but I am very
> currious if anyone has seen this problem and/or there is a known cause for this
> behaviour. Since huge drives such as this are becoming more and more
> available, this could become a big concern. (Or at lest a big entry in a FAQ
> somewhere...)

I have a 1.7G ide drive, and I had the problem also, so 10 gigs has no bearing
on the problem. I upgraded some packages (maybe fileutils), and it worked
fine afterwards.

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