Re: SATA hangs...

[Jeff Garzik]

Hamish wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm having problems with a SATA drive on an ASUS A8V deluxe 
> motherboard under kernel 2.6.17... In fact it's happened under 
> every (Vanilla) kernel I've ever run on this server (Back to 2.6.14).
> (It's just over a year old. It didn't used to experience the same load
> as it does now, so I'm currently assuming it's load related...
>
> The box is a 3GB memory, Barton core AMD64 3200+, with a 30GB IDE (IDE0), 
> 160GB IDE (IDE1) and a 200GB SATA drive.
>
> After anywhere between a few minutes (Rare) and several hundred hours 
> of uptime, access to filesystems on the SATA drive stop in mid flow 
> (Almost always under light  to heavy load. e.g. watching mythtv from
> a saved .mpg on a reiserfs filesystem on an LVM2 volume).
>
> I've tried the SATA drive on two different SATA ports as well. ata0 & ata1.

Does -mm give you better behavior?

	Jeff



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