Tejun Heo writes: > Mike Accetta wrote: > > The distinguishing factor appears to be the queue depth (4 works, 5 > > and various values up to and including 31 fail) not the kernel version. > > I am going to try running with the queue depth clamped at 4 to see if > > this consistently masks the problem. I may also try some more experiments > > if I have the time, like instrumenting what command was issued right > > before the group that all time out or increasing the SCSI timeout, > > in order to get some more insight into what is going on at the time of > > the failure. > > Please report the result of 'hdparm -I /dev/sdX' where sdX is the > problematic disk. Quite a few drives have problem with NCQ and we have > to blacklist them. This was reported last week in a earlier post to this thread. Here it is again: The version of hdparm on this box gives dev/sdb: operation not supported on SCSI disks against the SCSI disk name. With the controller in compatible mode, here is the 'hdparm -I /dev/hdb' output on the same disk: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: FUJITSU MHT2060BH Serial Number: NR0YT53258G8 Firmware Revision: 0000104A Standards: Supported: 7 6 5 4 Likely used: 7 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 65535 heads 16 1 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 4128705 LBA user addressable sectors: 117210240 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 117210240 device size with M = 1024*1024: 57231 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 60011 MBytes (60 GB) Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Queue depth: 32 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16 Advanced power management level: 128 (0x80) Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=240ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * READ BUFFER cmd * WRITE BUFFER cmd * Host Protected Area feature set * Look-ahead * Write cache * Power Management feature set Security Mode feature set * SMART feature set * FLUSH CACHE EXT command * Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * 48-bit Address feature set * Automatic Acoustic Management feature set SET MAX security extension * Advanced Power Management feature set * DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd * General Purpose Logging feature set * SMART self-test * SMART error logging Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count not supported: enhanced erase 60min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. Checksum: correct -- Mike Accetta ECI Telecom Ltd. Data Networking Division (previously Laurel Networks) - To unsubscribe from this list: 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