Tejun Heo writes: > > and NOTE: the card or driver (or both) for the Promise 300 TX4 isn't > > stable for production use -- and has a repeatable problem of timing out > > some drives before it can spin-up from standby (just the drive -- not the > > computer). The error logically removes the drive from the system until > > the next boot (unplugging, and replugging in the SATA cable on the drive > > would hang the machine within 5 seconds of replugging in the cable). Not > > an instant, hang as might indicated a HW upset plugging in cable, but a > > couple second delay after plugin -- before keyboard would lock up -- > > pointing toward the software trying to re-add+initialize the drive. > > Some promise controllers seem to suffer transmission problems when > combined with certain drives, which often show up as timeouts. The > hardreset of sata_promise wasn't as robust as it should have been and > in some cases it wasn't able to recover a link after error condition > causing the system to lose drive after such events. The hardreset > problem was fixed recently by Mikael Pettersson. Can you please try > 2.6.28-rc5 and see whether sata_promise still loses drives after > failures? > > Mikael, I think the hardreset fix is worthy including into -stable. > It should be safe for -stable too, right? The hardreset fix was included in 2.6.27.5. I wanted it in 2.6.26-stable too, but that branch seems to have been closed now. -- 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
