From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: understanding the cause of ATA failures Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:52:32 +0900 Message-ID: <4BAAB3D0.90704@kernel.org> References: <4BA2A02F.7040200@gmail.com> <4BA2A27E.9040704@buttersideup.com> <4BA2A590.4030505@gmail.com> <4BA2AA34.70105@hardwarefreak.com> <4BA2B15E.6000301@gmail.com> <4BA2B9BE.5030607@hardwarefreak.com> <4BA2F19D.1090501@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:46666 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753220Ab0CYHOL (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:14:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BA2F19D.1090501@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ludovico Cavedon Cc: Stan Hoeppner , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, On 03/19/2010 12:38 PM, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > Uhm, yes, you are right, it has a backplane with SES-2 over I2C support. > At first I though that backplanes were used only on external enclosures. If you have the machine locally, one thing you can try is to pull out all the drives and hook them up directly to the motherboard bypassing the backplane and see whether anything changes. -- tejun