Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756828Ab0FOKEA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:04:00 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:33940 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752013Ab0FOKD6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:03:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:07:48 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Rogier Wolff Cc: Alan , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on siig sata 3 controller Message-ID: <20100615110748.4303a106@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100615065714.GA9034@bitwizard.nl> References: <34979.10.6.6.23.1276144792.squirrel@10.6.6.2> <4C10A81F.50801@garzik.org> <54318.10.6.6.23.1276222123.squirrel@10.6.6.2> <20100615065714.GA9034@bitwizard.nl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 19 > A reboot brings the disks back to life. So in theory, Linux should be > able to restore life into these drives by doing the right magic with > the hardware bits... We don't have power control of the drives. If the firmware crashes or a drive flakes out due to power problems or something similar occurs its game over until you hit the switch. > ata5: hard resetting link > ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 370) We tried the biggest hammer we had Alan -- 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/