From: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
To: Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 sata_sil Sil3114 drive clicking / restarting?
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080127183332.GA19385@jim.sh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76366b180801271019w47e5fafan6ec6b7f3086e3c2@mail.gmail.com>
Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> I've been noticing something strange on an AMD Geode LX board that I
> have.. I have two SATA drives connected to the onboard Sil3114 chip,
> and the drives appear to be continually restarting (soft resetting?)
> during normal operation when nothing at all is happening on the
> machine. You can hear the drives doing it as well as feel it
> physically if you touch the drive. They are spinning down and back up
> again over and over again. All the while the OS never prints out any
> ata/scsi problems. The only manifestation of this in the kernel is
> that if you're doing something w/ the drives, it pauses momentarily
> while this happens (for instance, during an ext3 format).
It could be drive power management. Try "hdparm -B 255" or "hdparm -B
254" to turn that off. The output of "smartctl -A" output can also be
helpful to figure out what's causing it.
-jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-27 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-27 18:19 2.6.24 sata_sil Sil3114 drive clicking / restarting? Andrew Paprocki
2008-01-27 18:33 ` Jim Paris [this message]
2008-01-27 19:21 ` Andrew Paprocki
2008-02-02 5:17 ` Tejun Heo
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