Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:46:13 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: ICH5-SATA drivers freeze system when drives are spun down |
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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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