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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: "Linux-Kernel, " <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hdparm almost burned my SATA disk
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:04:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051016010459.0c9a2beb@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051016010153.768d29d5@werewolf.able.es>

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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:01:53 +0200, "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:

> Hi all...
> 
> I have seen a very strange thing. 
> I was trying hdparm -tT on a SATA disk, it did the buffered part OK,
> and hanged my box in the non-buffered measure. After waiting some minutes,
> I did a SysRQ-s-u-b, and the the disk began to give many read errors on
> sectors and could not boot because journal was not present and many other
> errors.
> 
> After some warm and cold boots, finally the box came up correctly.
> I suspect that something that hdparm did left my disk dumb. But what ?
> I will keep away from hdparm for some time...
> 
> Any idea ?
> 

Oops I forgot.
Kernel is 2.6.14-rc2-mm2.
hdparm is v6.1
Filesystem is ext3 on a

werewolf:~/soft/kernel/patches/2.6.13-jam8# hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       Maxtor 6L160M0                          
        Serial Number:      L40MRV4G            
        Firmware Revision:  BANC1G10



--
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es>     \               Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es                         \         It's better when it's free
Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.13-jam8 (gcc 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0))

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-15 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-15 23:01 hdparm almost burned my SATA disk J.A. Magallon
2005-10-15 23:04 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2005-10-16  0:05   ` Michal Piotrowski
2005-10-17 20:50     ` Mark Lord
2005-10-17 20:48 ` Mark Lord

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