Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265689AbUFRWVJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:21:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265531AbUFRWQj (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:16:39 -0400 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:60875 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265422AbUFRWPM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:15:12 -0400 From: "R. J. Wysocki" Organization: SiSK To: Ricky Beam , Matthias Urlichs Subject: Re: SATA 3112 errors on 2.6.7 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:18:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406190018.03500.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1535 Lines: 41 On Friday 18 of June 2004 18:28, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >>>Current sda: sense key Medium Error > >> > >>There's likely nothing wrong with your drives. Something about that > >>driver and the hardware aren't playing nice. > > > >What does the drive's SMART error log report? > > No errors. > > >I would consider swapping the power supply. Last year I had *four* 120 GB > >drives fail on me before I changed the thing. Zero problems since. > > Moral: stop buying crappy power supplies. :-) > > My power supply is fine. If the PS were at fault, the same thing would > be happening all the time, not just when linux tries to throw 200 sectors > at a time at the drives. Windows has been stressing these drives far more > than linux and there's been zero idication of any problems. As I said, > writing in O_DIRECT mode to the array @ _35MB/s_ never reports a DMA > timeout -- I'll start increasing the buffer size to see where the cracking > point is. Are your drives out of Seagate, maybe? If not, what make are they? rjw -- Rafael J. Wysocki, SiSK [tel. (+48) 605 053 693] ---------------------------- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/