David Greaves wrote: >Mark Lord wrote: > > > >>By the way, the latest 2.6.16-rc5-git4 is available, >>and has FUA turned off by default now. So it should >>work with your drives, and *you* are expected to verify >>that for us all now. >> >> >Yeah, I know - I've got it on the machine... but it's my wife's machine. >I've asked nicely but she's editing a Hercule Poirot video so I'm not >allowed to reboot it for a while... > >I've told her I'm not making pancakes until I've tested it so expect a >report Real Soon Now... > > OK that worked (the pancakes - the kernel's not doing so well...) haze:~# uname -a Linux haze 2.6.16-rc5-git4 #2 PREEMPT Wed Mar 1 19:07:58 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux The boot is pretty clean. I ran an xfs_repair -n on the lvm volume and got the following errors. The repair reported a clean filesystem and the drive was not booted from the raid so that's a big improvement. I was not able to trigger similar messages on ata1 but a simple dd doesn't trigger the messages on ata2 either (and for various reasons, xfs_repair wouldn't run on ata1 - I thought I'd leave it and report this first) ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51 ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } David -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html