Bug 210753 - backuping discs attached on IT8212 raid controller hangs system
Summary: backuping discs attached on IT8212 raid controller hangs system
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 5
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-14 10:35 UTC by Mario
Modified: 2023-01-13 15:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:28:19 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
fdisk -l, /etc/fstab, /var/log/messages (343.06 KB, text/plain)
2006-10-14 10:35 UTC, Mario
no flags Details

Description Mario 2006-10-14 10:35:19 UTC
Description of problem:
System hangs when I tries to backup discs attached on IT8212 raid controller.
With other discs, on other controllers, it does not happening! I have tried with
dump, tar, cpio, but it always hangs. Other ways I have not have any problems
with this disc and controller or any other disc or controller. Under Windows XP
(dual boot) there is not problem with backup or any other operation.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dump-0.4b41-2.fc5


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. dump -0 -b 64 -M -B 524288 -j9 -A opt.dumplog -f opt /opt
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
system hungs after "DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]"


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Mario 2006-10-14 10:35:20 UTC
Created attachment 138497 [details]
fdisk -l, /etc/fstab, /var/log/messages

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2006-10-15 14:26:26 UTC
To debug this need the actual messages from the IDE controller printed on the
console as it chokes. I would suspect you have one of the firmware versions that
dies under very high I/O load, in which case there isn't much that can be done
except to put the controller into non-raid mode with the it8212_noraid option.



Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2006-10-24 12:13:37 UTC
So is there needed to fix something on the dump side? It sounds more like a
hardware issue to me.

Comment 4 Alan Cox 2006-10-24 14:33:10 UTC
Dump causes long streaming I/O patterns which seem to blow up some of the
firmware versions. Hacking the ide driver to limit its maximum I/O size might
help a bit but its certainly not a dump problem.


Comment 5 Dave Jones 2006-11-20 21:17:03 UTC
Mario, can you try and capture the messages Alan refers to in comment #2, and
also separately, try the it8212_noraid option ? Thanks.


Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:58:20 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:28:15 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

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