From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Rondini Subject: [Affected devices] Frequent head unload under Linux Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:53:42 +0200 Message-ID: <48E1E916.9080202@inwind.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from averell.mail.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.55]:57591 "EHLO averell.mail.tiscali.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751401AbYI3JBP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:01:15 -0400 Received: from [10.10.5.35] (84.223.84.135) by averell.mail.tiscali.it (8.0.022) id 48DC961100257357 for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:55:12 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org As asked in this page: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues I report you of two notebook with this issue. Unfortunately I haven't access to these notebooks anymore (I installed Linux in an install party) so I cannot attach the output of the several commands. Both of them did very frequent unloads, for sure more than 5 per minute, but maybe even more. So that's more than 180 per hour! The notebook were very different, the first was a 5 years old HP Compaq NX 9005 with a 30GB drive: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11602_na/11602_na.HTML#Storage Probably the drive was a Hitachi model: http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h504.htm The other one was a brand new HP Compaq F760EL with a 120GB drive, but I didn't managed to know which kind of drive it's using... Sorry for the incomplete informations provided, hope it's better than nothing. Bye, Diego