Re: IBM Desktar disk problem?

[Tomas Konir]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 [e-mail] wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:40:37 +0200
> > From: Jens Axboe <[e-mail]>
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Cc: [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: IBM Desktar disk problem?
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 05 2002, [e-mail] wrote:
> > >
> > > HI,
> > > I was trying kernel 2.5 with TCQ enabled.
> > > I tried it on three Desktar disk (manufactured in Thailand
> > > in february 2001) model dtla 305020.
> > >
> > > All three disk died after some week, without
> > > any signal of being dying.
> > > I was starting to suspect about an HW problem.
> > >
> > > With 2.4 kernels, no tcq, they could work
> > > without any problem for almost 8 months, but now,
> > > I moved those disk to test systems to test tcq support
> > > and all died badly. This is not an heat problem, since
> > > thay staty in a CED conditioned at 18C.
> >
> > This is a puzzling report. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use tcq in
> > 2.5 actually, since even I do not know what state it is currently in. I
> > would seriously recommend 2.4 + tcq patches instead.
> >
> > That said, are your disks completely dead now? As in they do not work
> > with a regular 2.4 kernel anymore?!
> 
> Right now they are good just for the trash box.
> There is no way they could work, and I listen a noisy
> tic-tac frrr tic-tac from the head of the disks...
> 
> 
> I would think to an HW problem, but why all three together?
> and why exacly when I tested tcq?
> 

hi i have similar problem.
No dead disks, but after two days testing tcq patches (on 2.4). I 
got the two ATA errors (smartctl said). 
I think that it's no good to test tcq on IBM disks. My disk was without 
any problems one year. Two problems now is not normal.
For final i think, that tcq patch is not fully stable, becouse on high 
disk load i get oops and have to reboot. I have no problem when i remove 
tcq patches.
(high load i mean copy cca 20GiB between two IBM disks).

	MOJE

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Tomas Konir
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