Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Witold Krecicki <> | Subject | Re: SII SATA request size limit | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:44:57 +0200 |
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Dnia pon 15. września 2003 12:12, Adam Jones napisał: > In a futile gesture against entropy, Witold Krecicki wrote: > > I've lost some of mails about siimage on LKML, but Im' getting more and > > more confused about 'hangs' probably caused by siimage driver. I was > > using 15 rqsize, now 128 - doesn't matter. It happens in random moments - > > sometimes at boot time when drive is fscked, sometimes when I'm trying to > > copy large amount of data and sometimes without any particular reason > > after several hours. > > Out of interest, do you have some sort of SCSI controller in your > system as well? I've got a SiI3112 card and I get a hard lock-up pretty > much as soon as anything touches the SCSI bus on my aic7xxx card. > Disabling DMA on the SiI IDE channel seems to work around it, at the > cost of a lot of performance... (this is on stock 2.4.22, BTW) No, only on-board nForce2 IDE controller. Disabling ACPI helped. - now it's stable
> Setting rqsize to 128 seems perfectly stable for me - my drive reports > itself as a ST380013AS (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 80GB). I use 128 too, and I've got 2xST3120026AS (Barracuda 7200.7 120GB) in software RAID0 -- Witold Kręcicki (adasi) adasi [at] culm.net GPG key: 7AE20871 http://www.culm.net - 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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