R: libata/sata errors on ich[?]/maxtor

[mtassinari]

Hi Samuel, All

> some value in adding my information here... I will be adding this to 
> redhats bugzilla ... soon ;)
>
>see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185724
>
> What seems to happen is that mkfs will try and write to the drive 
> using the normal
>

from bugzilla:

>Writing inode tables:  733/1247        
>  
>....and then no more (actually since the update the block number we stick
on  
>has moved slightly)  

yes, we experimented the same absolutely reproducible behaviour, 
the system hangs - better, processes involving i/o hang - 
after a few timeouts and cannot be brought down other than hard resetting
it.
Our mileage can vary...

We use vanilla kernels on slackware-current distribution (see ver_linux in
previous post).

Tryed:
2.6.15
2.6.15.6
2.6.16-rc4
2.6.16-rc6

Mauro


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