From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932291AbWG3MBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:01:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932294AbWG3MBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:01:22 -0400 Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]:57219 "EHLO mailout10.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932291AbWG3MBV (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:01:21 -0400 Message-ID: <44CC9F7E.8040807@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:01:02 +0200 From: Harald Dunkel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060714) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: 2.6.18-rc2, problem to wake up spinned down drive? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3728720752D7289C582CBFDA" X-ID: EY23TaZXgeVce5F0a2CDAhywF614HxWFaFjumjTSxjpdl1jAsn-6cC X-TOI-MSGID: aba3ff80-83e6-416f-a052-9505a61a50a2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3728720752D7289C582CBFDA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi folks, I tried to spin down my harddisk using hdparm, but when it is supposed to spin up again, then it is blocked for quite some time. dmesg says: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xca Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back The disk is a SAMSUNG SP1614C. On another machine (with a SAMSUNG SP2504C inside) there is no such problem: The disk is back after just a few seconds. Is there some trick to wake up the disk a little bit faster? Regards Harri --------------enig3728720752D7289C582CBFDA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEzJ9+UTlbRTxpHjcRApgQAJ9YRVqxRtnDTKzyIKA+27BWcMZTHgCeM0OB kJrafcRuThAxM4pzrb5XK2A= =c5LZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3728720752D7289C582CBFDA--