Hello, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:52:33 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: >> I've got a box here based on current Debian Stable. >> It's got 15 Maxtor SATA drives in it on 4 Promise TX4 controllers. >> >> Using kernel 2.6.21.x it shuts down, but of course with a huge "clack" as 15 drives all do emergency >> head parks simultaneously. I thought I'd upgrade to 2.6.22-rc to get around this but the machine >> just hangs up hard apparently trying to sync cache on a drive. >> >> I've run this process manually, so I know it is being performed properly. >> >> Prior to shutdown, all nfsd processes are stopped, filesystems unmounted and md arrays stopped. >> /proc/mdstat shows >> root@storage1:~# cat /proc/mdstat >> Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] >> unused devices: <none> >> root@storage1:~# >> >> Here is the final hangup. >> >> http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG > > Something sent a command to the disk on ata15 after the PHY had been > offlined and the interface had been put in SLUMBER state (SStatus 614). > Consequently the command timed out. Libata tried a soft reset, and then > a hard reset, after which the machine hung. Hmm... weird. Maybe device initiated power saving (DIPS) is active? > I don't think sata_promise is the guilty party here. Looks like some > layer above sata_promise got confused about the state of the interface. But locking up hard after hardreset is a problem of sata_promise, no? Thanks. -- tejun - 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
