Re: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133 Promise ctrlr, or...

["D.A.M. Revok" <marvin@synapse.net>]

Ahem.

You /may/ want to remind me, next time, that umounting all filesystems 
except root, remounting root read-only, AND raid-stop'ing all arrays 
would be a good idea before doing this ( I forgot the last one )

Also, it seems that all drives de-allocate a sector every time I do this, 
and this is costing my system integrity...


Yes, it happens on all drives on the controller, and I've 2:
IBM 60GXP, 40GB == /dev/hde
Quantum LM15, 15GB == /dev/hdg

booting into multiuser command-line mode, no X, login as root, umount 
everything, "smartctl -a /dev/hde" ( or hdg ) gets 2 information lines, 
the second being the model# of the drive, and it never reaches the third 
line ( the newline doesn't appear ), and the drive-light comes on, and 
it's permanently hanged.

I'd thought this would be implicit in the 
* "cat /proc/ide/hde/identify" gets the same results *
comment I'd made previously, but did it out of curiosity...


When I did it on the Quantum, the Quantum's drive-light came on ( it's in 
a "mobile-rack" ), so it seems that the drive-light actually is still 
connected to the drive at that point, though nothing useful goes on 
after...


By the way, I seem to have hit this with the earlier 2.4.x kernels, ( 
IIRC ), but had /so/ much problems with flaky config and flaky distros 
at the time, that I didn't get that info out then ( by the time I got a 
stable system, I'd forgot, sorry... )


* Tell me which kernels you want me to try ( except ext3-broken ones ), 
and I'll do it, so you can scope where-the-break-is better, TIA *

     -me

On Tue 17 December, 2002 7:09, you wrote:
>Is it happening with all the drives on the controller? Is it possible
> to immediaately gather the SMART data from the drive after bootup
> using smartctl?
>
>Thanks
>Manish
>
>-----Original Message-----
From: D.A.M. Revok
>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Sent: 12/15/02 12:49 PM
>Subject: 2.4.19, don't "hdparm -I /dev/hde" if hde is on a Asus A7V133
>Promise ctrlr, or...
>
>( that's a capital-aye in the hdparm line )
>
>not even the Magic SysReq key will work.
>
>also, don't
>
>"cd /proc/ide/hde ; cat identify"
>
>... same thing
>drive-light comes on, but have to use the power-switch to get the
>machine
>back, ( lost stuff again, fuck )
>
>
>proc says it's pdc202xx
>
>Promise Ultra series driver Ver 1.20.0.7 2002-05-23
>Adapter: Ultra100 on M/B

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