From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Timeout error, disk gone Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:21:52 +0900 Message-ID: <45F6B380.2020704@gmail.com> References: <20070313130450.489f9e86@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20070313132115.GY1527@smurf.noris.de> <45F6B22A.80500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:18059 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030383AbXCMOV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:21:59 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so292344uga for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:21:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45F6B22A.80500@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: smurf@smurf.noris.de Cc: Alan Cox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > smurf@smurf.noris.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Alan Cox: >>> What model and what firmware ? There are some problem firmware releases >>> around with older SATA drives >> Samsung SP2004C, firmware version unknown -- how do I find out? > > Please post the result of 'lspci -nn' and full boot log. Samsung > firmwares tend to be pretty good but I've seen earlier ones occasionally > lock up after certain PHY events. Removing power and reapplying puts it > back into sane state. Oh and I'm pretty sure it was the drive which locked up. If you connect the harddrive to different working port without removing power, the same timeouts happen while the original port detects and works fine with another hotplugged drive. And for the record, among the earlier SATA drives, samsung ones were definitely in the better group. Also, please include full log of failure. Thanks. -- tejun