From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:54:52 +0900 Message-ID: <46C2B14C.5020004@gmail.com> References: <46C11BBE.6010802@wasp.net.au> <46C181FD.8040708@gmail.com> <46C1B3B5.1090303@wasp.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]:26584 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751612AbXHOHzK (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:55:10 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so1661963rvb for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:55:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46C1B3B5.1090303@wasp.net.au> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Campbell Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson [cc'ing Mikael Pettersson] Brad Campbell wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a >> separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up >> [1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether >> errors persist on those drives. >> > > 2 separate tests with the 2 troublesome drives, each time with both > drives on a different power supply unit. Also tried new cables from a > different manufacturer. > > It ain't the cables and it ain't the power. I see. Thanks. I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point. Mikael? -- tejun