From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932431AbYEHXVc (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:21:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753983AbYEHXVD (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:21:03 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:49399 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473AbYEHXVB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 19:21:01 -0400 Message-ID: <48238ADA.5060206@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 19:20:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=2EA=2E_Magall=F3n=22?= CC: Linus-IDE , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: The never enfind DRDY saga References: <20080509005111.7cf55350@werewolf.home> In-Reply-To: <20080509005111.7cf55350@werewolf.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J.A. Magallón wrote: > Hi all... > > I'm getting again my friendly DRDY errors, this time on the new disk I got > to replace the old one (that fortunately was still under warranty...). > This is a brand new disk, it came perfectly packaged... > Now it is not a Seagate, but a WD: Note that DRDY is not an error: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages But moreover, for Serial ATA, timeouts are generally due to platform problems, irq problems, or driver problems. When we see timeouts, we generally do not look at the hard drive as the primary cause. Have you gone through the debugging process for irq problems -- turning off ACPI, noapic, etc.? Jeff