From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Small Subject: Re: understanding the cause of ATA failures Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:30 +0000 Message-ID: <4BA2A27E.9040704@buttersideup.com> References: <4BA2A02F.7040200@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay1.allsecurenet.com ([63.246.152.102]:55408 "EHLO relay1.allsecurenet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751893Ab0CRWnE (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:43:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BA2A02F.7040200@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ludovico Cavedon Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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.