From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: JMicron - hard resetting link Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:32:01 +0900 Message-ID: <47B4CF71.5070408@gmail.com> References: <009401c86d5c$5eb57bf0$4d0fa8c0@M2007> <47B19997.1010404@gmail.com> <003801c86d84$fdae0510$4d0fa8c0@M2007> <47B1B299.3010208@gmail.com> <002f01c86d9c$94542f50$4d0fa8c0@M2007> <47B230CA.9060506@gmail.com> <005c01c86f5d$b050b4e0$4d0fa8c0@M2007> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:20305 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765604AbYBNXcL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:32:11 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so846212wah.23 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:32:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <005c01c86f5d$b050b4e0$4d0fa8c0@M2007> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Gabor FUNK Cc: IDE/ATA development list Gabor FUNK wrote: > To be honest, I didn't believe that doing anything with the PSU > would do something. > However, seemingly it did. > I have also updated the BIOS, but I guess this has not much > to do with it. I too am amazed at the number of PSU problems getting reported here. It seems most hardware problems turn out to be power related. > So a different brand PSU was additionally installed, and this > one got the motherboard and the 4 disk which were failing. > The "old" PSU got the second 4 hdds and the 2 other system > HDDs. > Test was started yesterday (Feb 13) about 16:30 CET including > array building up and file copies. About today (14) 20:22 the > problem appeared, but seemingly "moved" with the PSU to the > other 4 disks bunch (on nvidia controller) - more precisely, only > 2 of them (array is still operational). Hmmm.. > So it seems that there is definitely something with the "old" PSU. > > Also, I tried to mount the failed drives, without success. > > Thought I let you know. > Now I will try with the only one, "new" PSU to see what happens... Yeah, please keep us posted. Thanks. -- tejun