instability with gmirror and atacontrol spindown

[Aragon Gouveia]

Hi,

I eagerly started using atacontrol's new spindown command the other day. 
There's a gmirror volume running on top of the two disks that get spundown. 
I find that often when the drives are spun back up to serve a disk request,
one of the ata devices times out and my system goes into a never ending loop
of retrying.  At that point I'm lucky if I'm able to shutdown gracefully.

This is what is logged on the console after the disk spin up message:

ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing 
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly
ad8: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=20047817
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing 
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing 
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly
ad8: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=20047817
<rinse and repeat>

I can only reproduce it when my gmirror volume is running.

Any ideas?


Thanks,
Aragon