Re: libata interface fatal error

[Florian Effenberger <florian@effenberger.org>]

Hi Tejun,

> Hmmm... Can you use a separate PSU to power two of the four drives and
> see what happens?  Just power up a PSU as directed in the following
> webpage and connect two of the harddrives to the PSU.
> 
>   http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod

thanks for that link, we will try that and keep you updated what happens!

> I don't know.  Till now all the problem cases have been isolated to a
> specific controller / drive combination (sata_promise and newer seagate
> drives) or hardware configuration problem (most of them being PSU
> issues), so I don't think we need such option yet.  If you have a
> problematic hardware which pukes on 3.0Gbps, libata should do the right
> thing after complaining a bit which IMHO isn't too bad.

So, loss of data or data corruption can't occur, even when we have to 
wait until the speed is limited?

Florian