From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261929AbVF0LdG (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:33:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261931AbVF0LdG (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:33:06 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:45019 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261929AbVF0LdC (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:33:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:33:01 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Erik Slagter Cc: Alan Cox , Justin Piszcz , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Promise ATA/133 Errors With 2.6.10+ Message-ID: <20050627113301.GA8476@ucw.cz> References: <1119688191.4293.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1119808784.28649.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1119867096.4020.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1119867096.4020.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:11:36PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 18:59 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sad, 2005-06-25 at 09:35, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > BTW2 could it be that somewhere a timeout has been lowered in recent > > > > kernels? That must have been pre-2.6.11 then. > > > > Timeouts have not changed or have increased in fact. > > Never mind, the offending harddisk has ceased to be yesterday, it is no > more. > > What really bothers me, though, is that until the very last moment it > was alive, it didn't report any smart error, nor did any self test fail. > I guess IBM is to blame here :-( Most drives report no SMART problems until they die. I've seen several drives who weren't able to read/write or at least remap bad sectors, and still their SMART statistics were almost perfect. The SMART event log included the errors, though. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR