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Message-ID: <478BF6C9.4090306@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:56:57 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> To: "J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com> CC: "Linux-Kernel, " <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 J.A. Magallón wrote: > I finally found the bad drive (the most obvious one as I would expect, > it was recycled from an older box...). > I tried removing completely the drive from power and controller, and then > running with it powered but not connected. No single error any more on > any of the other 3 drives. I have been updating my distro, rebuilding the > rpm database, moving big files between drives, even all at the same time. > No error. > > I can't believe it, but a bad drive was causing timeouts on other drive > _on other controller_, the bad one was attached to the Promise and the > good ones on the ICH5 SATA (both integrated in motherboard). > Or there is a strange interaction in my board (Asus PC-DL), or there is > a nasty bug in the kernel... Hmmm... That's an interesting story. Can you please connect the faulty harddrive to a separate power supply and connect the drive to the controller and see whether IO errors go away? -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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