From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ICH5-SATA drivers freeze system when drives are spun down
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:46:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923174613.GA27629@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k77zqv1s.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:22:23PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> I've always used noflushd to spin down the drives I don't use much. Some of my
> older drives are really noise, and there's enough heat in there as it is. I
> just switched to a new system and I find on my new motherboard with a ICH5
> SATA controller the system doesn't behave properly when the drives are spun
> down.
>
> The entire system freezes periodically for anywhere from half a second to 10s.
> This happens about once a minute or so, sometimes more. During this time the
> entire system is frozen, but when it recovers it processes all the lost i/o.
Are you using my libata driver, or the stock drivers/ide driver?
The stock drivers/ide ICH5 SATA driver in known to lock up in many
cases, not just the one you described.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 17:22 Greg Stark
2003-09-23 17:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-09-23 17:56 ` Greg Stark
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