From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Paris Subject: Re: 2.6.24 sata_sil Sil3114 drive clicking / restarting? Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20080127183332.GA19385@jim.sh> References: <76366b180801271019w47e5fafan6ec6b7f3086e3c2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from NEUROSIS.MIT.EDU ([18.95.3.133]:47360 "EHLO neurosis.jim.sh" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751831AbYA0Sdl (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76366b180801271019w47e5fafan6ec6b7f3086e3c2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Paprocki Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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