Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758654AbYJHAC0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:02:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754179AbYJHABp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:01:45 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.187]:17779 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758038AbYJHABn (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:01:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=nL/31ly049S4DlAOAKktrgaK0cVFkr0A4Vahegx92SbcXHFmL7dJuA/rnNlfNfO8l1 Kbw3/MDcBR3Ht6MqUKGyVEhAVcdERFhKBQFm+6xo7gBUSNRInhI4uoOYYainjv6F/Aqi nctpe7nKkLQfUs2M7w/kfhkdXs+YFjPP2f9KA= Message-ID: <48EBF7F7.8080908@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:59:51 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linda Walsh CC: Smartmontools Mailing List , Bruce Allen , LKML Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd) References: <48E1B8F8.3090205@gmail.com> <48E26BDA.8080804@tlinx.org> <48E26E61.2010705@gmail.com> <48E34BC8.3050009@tlinx.org> <48E6DE07.70706@gmail.com> <48EAAF2E.4060407@tlinx.org> <48EAB672.3010209@gmail.com> <48EABD07.6030506@tlinx.org> <48EABE8E.9070809@gmail.com> <48EBE263.8000500@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <48EBE263.8000500@tlinx.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1168 Lines: 33 Linda Walsh wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Linda Walsh wrote: >> >>> Controller is a Promise TX4/300 >>> Yeap. After the drive goes offline, does unplugging and replugging >>> the power cable to the harddrive makes it come back? >>> > ---- > No. It hangs the computer. about 2-3 seconds after plugging the > drives back in. Did it twice to verify it wasn't a fluke. Verified > drives removed from /dev, then > plugged them back in -- was able to do about 1-2 ls commands on /dev, then > keyboard goes dead. > > First time I tried unplugging the power cables and replugging -- > that hung... > 2nd time tried unplugging a sata cable and replugging -- that hung too. Ah.. okay, so the controller went bonkers then. Any chance you can shell out ~15 bucks and try a sil SATA controller? > Hopefully you won't need any more tests of this exact nature...? :-) Wasn't it fun and empowering? :-P -- tejun -- 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/