Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:58:18 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: IDE hang, partition strangeness |
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Petr Vandrovec wrote: >
Hi, Petr. We're able to reproduce the ntpd thing btw. It is caused by cset 1.403.142.43 "avoid allocating pte_chains for unshared pages" - Rik is looking into it.
> On 1 Aug 02 at 23:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Seems that the partitioning code in 2.5.30 is sending illegal LBAs > > > to the IDE driver, which responds by hanging the box: > > > > I misread this backtrace: > > > > _this_ is the lba. 160086527. It is the very last sector on the disk. > > Did not it issued an error on the console before that? Something > like 'hda: xxxx: status=YY' ?
There are no error messages.
> If it did, just open > drivers/ide/ide.c in your favorite editor, locate function ata_error, > in this function locate 'if (rq->errors >= ERROR_MAX)' and replace > it with 'if (1)'...
Tried that - it made no difference.
It'd be convenient to get my IDE disks back. I'll try the 2.4 forward-port drivers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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