Morrison, Tom wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lord [mailto:liml@xxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57 PM
To: Morrison, Tom
Cc: Jeff Garzik; linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations
Morrison, Tom wrote:
<snip >
The problem comes ONLY when I am doing large file operations
(e.g.: just copying a file) to/from the SATA drives behind
the subject line 7042....it just hangs after about 10-15
seconds into the copy...
How large a file causes the hang - you ask - well, somewhere
between 100Meg & 500Meg...
<snip other drivel>
::: Can you give me exact details of how to set up and reproduce this?
::: -- Kernel version
Linux-2.6.23.1
NOTE: I am using ppc (arch/ppc instead of arch/powerpc)
::: -- number/config/model of drives
2x250GIG Western Digital - 3 partitions (largest (/dev/sda3
~200Gig - formatted to ext2).
7042 PEX on a MPC8548 Board
::: -- exact command line sequence to cause the failure
NFS mount root file system (I am currently rebuild to take away
the NFS file system dependency) - /dev/sda3 is drive in question...
..
MMmm.. I'd like to see that again without the rootfs-on-NFS.
What exactly do you mean when you say "it just hangs" ?
Everything (dead system)?
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