Additional information - the ~file size this is caused is somewhere close to 260Mbytesfiles. If I create a ~260Mbytes file - my program finishes creating the file - but ~5 seconds later (I timed this by hitting enter on the console every second after completion of the command that should have done a fsync of the created file before exiting)... It hangs... I did a little playing around with /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level (set to 0x7) - and it seems that the kernel/box locks up after this line: >> scsi_add_timer: scmd: efca83c0, time: 7500, (c0160660) >> scsi_delete_timer: scmd: efca83c0, rtn: 1 >> scsi_add_timer: scmd: efca8840, time: 7500, (c0160660) Further analysis (setting logging level to 65535 (0xFFFF) Has the following behavior down low) - >> scsi_add_timer: scmd: efca8960, time: 7500, (c0160660) >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Send: 0xefca8960 >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 47 92 27 00 01 48 00 >> buffer = 0xc0553040, bufflen = 167936, done = 0xc016b194, queuecommand 0xc017ed34 >> leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd() >> scsi_delete_timer: scmd: efca8960, rtn: 1 >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Done: 0xefca8960 SUCCESS >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 47 92 27 00 01 48 00 >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] scsi host busy 1 failed 0 >> sd 0:0:0:0: Notifying upper driver of completion (result 0) >> >> scsi_add_timer: scmd: efca82a0, time: 7500, (c0160660) >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Send: 0xefca82a0 >> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 47 93 6f 00 02 40 00 >> buffer = 0xef5734c0, bufflen = 294912, done = 0xc016b194, queuecommand 0xc017ed34 >> leaving scsi_dispatch_cmnd() Nothing more - it hangs! This is really a nasty problem!!!! - 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