Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754722AbYJMFSd (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:18:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752286AbYJMFSX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:18:23 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.190]:17412 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752203AbYJMFSX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:18:23 -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=Ditt4q94wOXdqv25IG/YLvhsOuf5Fy9ERzTA/AErOFZ2sLsmZ4SMR5JUX128Rx3bAU 2qVlV9CNGR4sU8mQYGvXMgi6cxfhp9BcG8uGmTN8v0fREEyQ2SZ+nVR/P22gjgEcI9cM tL08LO0eCLEA1HbsIx5Lmv+IFTPIVOrm1g14E= Message-ID: <48F2D9A8.1030502@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:16:24 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikael Pettersson CC: Christian Mueller , Bruce Allen , Smartmontools Mailing List , LKML , IDE/ATA development list Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd) References: <48EBFE9B.9070503@gmail.com> <18674.4081.839329.116533@harpo.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <18674.4081.839329.116533@harpo.it.uu.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 25 Mikael Pettersson wrote: > - smartctl -n standby waking Linda's disks from standby is probably > a disk firmware issue or a smartctl issue. I see no evidence that > sata_promise is to blame for that. /me agrees. I think it's most likely a problem in the firmware. > - hardreset in sata_promise seems broken. I'll take a closer look > at that in about a week's time (I'll be busy with other work the > next couple of days). This looks like a rather serious problem, so please take a look at this. Also, after the drive went down, does unplugging and replugging the signal cable fix the problem, if not does doing the same thing with the power cable make any difference? Thanks. -- 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/