Johnny Luong wrote:
>>> If it doesn't then we need to look at it further and find out what is
>>> going on to crash the drive.
>> Another possibility is that the drive requires DEVICE RESET to clear its
>> FIFO or whatever.  I'm working on DEVICE RESET.  Will post patch soon.
>> Johnny, please hold on to the hardware for testing.
> 
> Since it may be a software issue, I've simply kept the drive in place.
> I did upgrade to 2.6.24-rc8 a couple of days ago though and haven't 
> seen that strange HSM error.  

Please apply the attached patch on top of 2.6.24-rc8 and see whether the
problem goes away, that is, libata EH recovers the device after such
failure.

Thanks.

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tejun