From: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>
To: Ludovico Cavedon <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: understanding the cause of ATA failures
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA2A27E.9040704@buttersideup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA2A02F.7040200@gmail.com>
Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> Is there any way to understand what caused the failures? Is it possible
> to exclude that is was the hard drive, or cable, or controller, or
> kernel fault?
>
Do the drives have any SMART errors logged? Any reallocated sectors?
Do you run smartd, or any other smart data collection? I've had a load
of trouble with WD drives when smart data collection was enabled.
Haven't had time to get to the bottom of it, but I suspect a firmware bug.
Tim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-18 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 21:50 understanding the cause of ATA failures Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-18 22:00 ` Tim Small [this message]
2010-03-18 22:13 ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-18 22:33 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-18 23:03 ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-18 23:39 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-19 3:38 ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-19 10:26 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-25 0:52 ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-26 2:22 ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-22 3:37 ` Robert Hancock
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