From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750946AbWHBKgQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:36:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750898AbWHBKgF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:36:05 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:42501 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbWHBKgD (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:36:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:18:03 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Harald Dunkel Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2, problem to wake up spinned down drive? Message-ID: <20060802101803.GH7601@ucw.cz> References: <44CC9F7E.8040807@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44CC9F7E.8040807@t-online.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > I tried to spin down my harddisk using hdparm, but when it is > supposed to spin up again, then it is blocked for quite some > time. dmesg says: > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) > ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xca Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) > ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient > ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs) > ata1: soft resetting port > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > ata1: EH complete > SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) > sda: Write Protect is off > sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > > The disk is a SAMSUNG SP1614C. > > > On another machine (with a SAMSUNG SP2504C inside) there is no > such problem: The disk is back after just a few seconds. How do you manage to spindown SATA disks? I tried hdparm -y, but that did not work iirc. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.