I just took a look at these two patches and they are already
incorporated in linux-2.4.19-pre5 which gives me the same results as
2.4.19-pre3. Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks to everyone who works on the IDE subsystem. I'm sure someone
will point me to a solution in no time flat.
* Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> [020331 16:38]:
>
> Please apply these which have been submitted to Alan Cox but originate
> from Vojtech.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andre Hedrick
> LAD Storage Consulting Group
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Geoffrey Hoff wrote:
>
> > On kernels 2.4.19-pre3 and later I get a disk hang any time I generate
> > heavy disk activity. My test is a quick script that untars 2.4.0 and
> > then applys patch up to 2.4.19 and repeats. With kernels 19-pre3
> > through 19-pre5, I can usually get through about the third patch and then
> > my hard drive activity led goes solid and I can no longer access any
> > disk. This is happening specifically with a VIA controller (vt82c596b
> > rev 22) with a Maxtor 91536U6. Attached are part of my dmesg,
> > proc/ide/via, hdinfo of /dev/hda and part of my .config. If I use
> > hdparm to set the drive to mdma2 in 19-pre3 I never see any problems. It
> > only happens in any udma mode. I compiled 19-pre3 with the via
> > driver disabled, but the problem continues. I also tried 19-pre5 as I
> > looked and saw that it contains more ide updates, but I get the same
> > results.
> >
> > In 19-pre2 and previous kernels, If the drive is running in UDMA66, I
> > ocassionally get checksum errors and retries so I usually on boot put
> > the drive in UDMA33 mode. I have never seen any error of any kind in
> > this mode. I have tried modes udma0, 2, and 4 on 2.4.19-pre3 and they
> > all eventually hang. When this hang occurs, I get no kernel messages at
> > all. I set dmesg to level 8 so I should see any message on the console.
> > If it weren't for ext3 and reiserfs, I would be very tired of fscks by
> > now. If there is anything that I can try to help narrow this problem
> > down, please let me know.
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