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SubjectRe: ICH5-SATA drivers freeze system when drives are spun down
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:22:23PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> I've always used noflushd to spin down the drives I don't use much. Some of my
> older drives are really noise, and there's enough heat in there as it is. I
> just switched to a new system and I find on my new motherboard with a ICH5
> SATA controller the system doesn't behave properly when the drives are spun
> down.
>
> The entire system freezes periodically for anywhere from half a second to 10s.
> This happens about once a minute or so, sometimes more. During this time the
> entire system is frozen, but when it recovers it processes all the lost i/o.


Are you using my libata driver, or the stock drivers/ide driver?

The stock drivers/ide ICH5 SATA driver in known to lock up in many
cases, not just the one you described.

Jeff



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