Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756188AbYJMHKI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:10:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753719AbYJMHJx (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:09:53 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.189]:37902 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753347AbYJMHJw (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:09:52 -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=SOP/jhTWs8hLDN4Z7ojD5+v5NTAxaNpYiOjZUUvCrgwYat24CcMwhA4RHZ/tHLadUt uFz6Q0fUuIcQtkELWhW1a/HoVNmWV9GhX8VDtA4C29v5XBWFH0iCz7mjlEjHWMdJh+SM gSwjlHM7IN1LtUqjfgrezrvcNhOHu6obxSElY= Message-ID: <48F2F3E4.4030800@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:08:20 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080720) 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> <48F2D9A8.1030502@gmail.com> <18674.62170.845285.407281@harpo.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <18674.62170.845285.407281@harpo.it.uu.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 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: 1166 Lines: 30 Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Tejun Heo writes: > > > - 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? > > I couldn't bring the port back up with any combination of signal/power > cable hotplugging. Heh.. that rules out drive firmware stuck in wonderland. > Even rmmod sata_promise; modprobe sata_promise failed to bring the > port back up. Hence my suspicion that hardreset is borked or doesn't > kick in. It looks like the controller requires harder or more proper kick in the ass to return to sane state. :-) -- 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/