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From: Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>
To: Ludovico Cavedon <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: understanding the cause of ATA failures
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA2A27E.9040704@buttersideup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA2A02F.7040200@gmail.com>

Ludovico Cavedon wrote:

> Is there any way to understand what caused the failures? Is it possible
> to exclude that is was the hard drive, or cable, or controller, or
> kernel fault?
>   

Do the drives have any SMART errors logged?  Any reallocated sectors? 
Do you run smartd, or any other smart data collection?  I've had a load
of trouble with WD drives when smart data collection was enabled. 
Haven't had time to get to the bottom of it, but I suspect a firmware bug.

Tim.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-18 21:50 understanding the cause of ATA failures Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-18 22:00 ` Tim Small [this message]
2010-03-18 22:13   ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-18 22:33     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-18 23:03       ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-18 23:39         ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-19  3:38           ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-19 10:26             ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-25  0:52             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-26  2:22               ` Ludovico Cavedon
2010-03-22  3:37 ` Robert Hancock

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