Tejun Heo wrote: > Jim Paris wrote: > > Still, it seems that some improvements could be made to the EH when > > this sort of thing happens. For example, after "speed down requested > > but no transfer mode left" a few times in a row, maybe it would make > > sense to just fail the disk and give up. That would have allowed > > higher layers like MD to recover. > > That's SD retrying sector-by-sector a large request as libata doesn't > report proper failed sector info. Please try 2.6.20. md will fail the > drive after a few errors. Hi Tejun, It was 2.6.20. The system was stuck repeating EH for about half an hour before I physically pulled the disk to get MD to fail the device and to bring the system back to a responsive state. > Patches to improve EH behavior further went into 2.6.21 devel tree and > some are pending. Great, I've hopefully eliminated the cause of my errors but I'll give that a try if I run into this again. -jim - 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
