Re: [2.6.30.5] Diagnosing an IDE lockup with SMART long tests

[Ondrej Zary]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> Quoting Robert Hancock:
> > It's most likely a bug in the IDE code somewhere, but realistically the
> > most effective course of action would likely be to switch from the old
> > IDE drivers and use libata instead. The IDE code doesn't receive that
> > much testing these days, and it's really hard to debug (as you've seen,
> > the debugging output is rather atrocious).
>
> I gave it a shot anyway.  Converting to PATA was surprisingly
> straighforward.
>
> Anyway, I now get the following when running SMART long tests on /dev/sda:
>
>   ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
>
> And the machine hangs...  So I'm back to square one.
> How do I prevent lockups on the system when running SMART long tests?

What drive is that? Isn't that an IBM drive with buggy firmware?

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Ondrej Zary
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