Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote:
I think I might be having the "same type of bug" or something related using sata_via? Bug opened at bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6317 This started appearing with 2.6.16. It often does it using only one SATA HD. It does not do it at every boot but often starts doing it after a little while (a few hours...) and finally hanging my PC. - vin
I can duplicate my problem everything, and I can make it stop a will. doing "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=64k &" and then "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=64k &" will cause the problem within a couple of seconds. Doing "kill %1 %2" (assuming the dd's are %1 and %2) will stop the machine from hanging on disk io within 30-60 seconds. Once it hangs it does not appear to do any disk io until the offending processes are killed. Roger - : 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