From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Still having problems with sata_promise on all late kernels - shutdown too - BISECTED Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:54:22 +0400 Message-ID: <46C402AE.6010605@wasp.net.au> References: <46C11BBE.6010802@wasp.net.au> <46C1316F.4010906@wasp.net.au> <46C1DB92.7080806@wasp.net.au> <46C2B046.7060708@gmail.com> <46C3273F.1070306@wasp.net.au> <46C3E3F7.2010803@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wasp.net.au ([203.190.192.17]:50671 "EHLO wasp.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756472AbXHPHy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:54:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46C3E3F7.2010803@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Brad Campbell wrote: >> Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Brad Campbell wrote: >>>> Brad Campbell wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen >>>>> shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both >>>>> boxes). >>>>> >>>> git-bisect shows up this commit as the guilty party. I can't just revert >>>> it on a recent tree though. >>>> Will investigate further. >>> Weird. Does 'hdparm -y /dev/sdX' work? >> Very interesting indeed.. >> >> for i in /dev/sd* ; do echo $i ; hdparm -y $i ; done >> >> sda-sdh worked fine.. sdi locked the box. >> >> So it's dying on the 3rd or 4th controller. > > That's weird. You seem to have the same controllers and drives. What > happens if you spin down from hdi upwards? > Any attempt to spin down sdi-sdo in any order locks hard. Any attempt to spin down sda-sdh works in any combination/permutation. Yes, all controllers and drives are identical. Brad -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams