From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" Subject: Re: The never enfind DRDY saga Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 01:23:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20080509012309.13666199@werewolf.home> References: <20080509005111.7cf55350@werewolf.home> <48238ADA.5060206@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from smtp.ono.com ([62.42.230.12]:14933 "EHLO resmaa02.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752626AbYEHXXR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:23:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48238ADA.5060206@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linus-IDE , Linux-Kernel On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:20:58 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote= : > J.A. Magall=C3=B3n wrote: > > Hi all... > >=20 > > I'm getting again my friendly DRDY errors, this time on the new dis= k I got > > to replace the old one (that fortunately was still under warranty..= =2E). > > This is a brand new disk, it came perfectly packaged... > > Now it is not a Seagate, but a WD: >=20 > Note that DRDY is not an error: >=20 > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages >=20 > But moreover, for Serial ATA, timeouts are generally due to platform=20 > problems, irq problems, or driver problems. When we see timeouts, we= =20 > generally do not look at the hard drive as the primary cause. >=20 > Have you gone through the debugging process for irq problems -- turni= ng=20 > off ACPI, noapic, etc.? >=20 Thanks, will look at that page and see if I can debug some more info. --=20 J.A. Magallon \ Software is lik= e sex: \ It's better when it'= s free Mandriva Linux release 2008.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.23-jam05 (gcc 4.2.2 20071128 (4.2.2-2mdv2008.1)) SMP PREEMPT