linux-kernel - Re: XFS shutting down due to IO timeout on SATA disk (pata

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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:35:13 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Subject: Re: XFS shutting down due to IO timeout on SATA disk (pata_via for
 CX700)

Hello,

Bruno Prémont wrote:
> I don't have other drives of the same model, but 3 ones slightly smaller
> in size and previous generation, those are just a few months older (but
> also have way more uptime), see below for the smartctl output. I've never
> seen ATA errors on them.
> These other drives are running on AMD based platform, SB600 SATA with AHCI.

So, smartctl output seems fine.

> Just for the record, on the VIA there were no errors yet with
> 2.6.27-rc6-git3 though I ran some compiling on it. As such it *could* be
> that one of the patches pushed by Jeff helped:
>   [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h
>   sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking
>   ata: duplicate variable sparse warning

The only patch which could have affected the result is the off-by-one
one; however, FLUSH timeout is a bit unexpected failure mode for the
problem.  Can you please keep the system running for a whlie and see
whether the problem occurs?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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