Re: 2.6.24 sata_sil Sil3114 drive clicking / restarting?

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> Both drives already had PM disabled, visible in hdparm -i:
> "AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled"
> 
> Looking at the smart reporting, it is showing both drives have a
> FAILING_NOW condition for Seek_Error_Rate. I don't know what to
> believe, because it seems like whatever drives I attach to this system
> are chewed up and start showing Seek_Error_Rate failure conditions.
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   046   046   067    Pre-fail
> Always   FAILING_NOW 393853
> /dev/sdb:
>  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   044   044   067    Pre-fail
> Always   FAILING_NOW 2556544
> 
> I swapped in 2 more drives of the same model, and one exhibits the
> same Seek_Error_Rate FAILING_NOW condition. I now have 4 out of 5 of
> this same model drive which are failing. They appear to be from the
> same batch, so I'm not ruling out some kind of manufacturing defect,
> but this definitely seems strange. I guess I'm just fishing to see if
> there is anything on the system that could have damaged the drives.

Can you connect the drive to a separate different SPU and see whether
the problem persists?

-- 
tejun