Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750710AbWCVL1l (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:27:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750731AbWCVL1l (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:27:41 -0500 Received: from smtp5.libero.it ([193.70.192.55]:27830 "EHLO smtp5.libero.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750710AbWCVL1k (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:27:40 -0500 From: To: "'Samuel Masham'" Cc: "'Alan Cox'" , , Subject: R: libata/sata errors on ich[?]/maxtor Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:27:31 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 In-Reply-To: <93564eb70603220159wd03a48du@mail.gmail.com> X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 29 Hi Samuel, All, > > > > > > Eventually the drive will be offlined. > > > > really? I can test that easily enough if nothing else :) > > When is it (should it) going to offline the drive? its been spitting out these messages (about set per min?) for 4 hours at the moment with > no change bar the sector number increasing by 2 each time... > confirm. tryed with cables about 4 inches long, to no success. The process doing the i/o hangs and cannot be killed, so no proper sync or shutdown other than reset is possible. 2.6.16 release shows no improvement. 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 does not even recognise the maxtor at boot... btw, a couple of WD drives went flawless. Mauro - 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/