From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [Affected devices] Frequent head unload under Linux Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:02:28 +0900 Message-ID: <48E2E844.4070200@kernel.org> References: <48E1E916.9080202@inwind.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:53114 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751126AbYJADEG (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:04:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48E1E916.9080202@inwind.it> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Diego Rondini Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Diego Rondini wrote: > 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. Thanks but I can't really add the entry without knowing more information. I'm trying to come up with more automatic solution so all these may be able to go away in some time. Thanks. -- tejun