Re: Huge problem with XFS/iCH7R

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:20:11PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >> My system crashes every few days, at the moment daily. The message shown
> >> is (the drive changes about every time, I do not see a pattern here):
> >> ---
> >> ata4: handling error/timeout
> >> ata4: port reset, p_is 0 is 0 pis 0 cmd c017 tf 7f ss 0 se 0
> >> ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> >> sdd: Current: sense key=0x0
> >> 	ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
> >> Info fid=0x0
> > 
> > FWIW, the above look like hardware/driver problems.
> 
> If the problem doesn't occur before 2.6.16, that makes a hardware 
> problem less likely.  It's not impossible that some buggy feature is now 
> used, but lower probability than the kernel change being the culprit. 

*nod*.

> The bug fix you mention may solve the whole thing, or make it easier to 

I'm certain it wont; that was an XFS problem, and I can see no way it
could cause device/driver issues also.

> General comment: if a kernel version made my system crash once a day I 
> sure wouldn't be using it.

Heh, yes - by definition.

> New features are neat, but I wouldn't put up 
> with that if it made my cat pee holy water.

Not sure what new features you're talking about here?  Nor how your
cat fits into all this.. ;)

cheers.

-- 
Nathan