5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

[Søren Schmidt]

On 21/05/2005, at 0:52, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-May-20 14:53:09 -0600, Elliot Finley wrote:
>
>> From: "Peter Jeremy" <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au>
>>
>>> On Fri, 2005-May-20 08:25:58 -0600, Elliot Finley wrote:
>>>
>>>> I took the -L option off of my dump command in my daily dump  
>>>> script.  I've
>>>> gone two days without locking up which is unusual.  I think that  
>>>> may be what
>>>> was tickling the bug that was locking me up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sometime you might like to do a 'dd if=/dev/ar0 of=/dev/null  
>>> bs=32k' just
>>> to confirm that you don't have any unreadable blocks (though this  
>>> seems
>>> unlikely).
>>>
>>
>> came up clean. transfer went 40MB/s.
>>
>
> That seem to leave the finger pointing at the ATA driver.
>
> Paging Søren: Are you have to help Elliot?

No, my only advise is to use the ATA mkIII patches or better yet - 
current..

- Søren