From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Linda Walsh <smartmontools@tlinx.org>
Cc: Smartmontools Mailing List
<smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Bruce Allen <ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd)
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:59:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EBF7F7.8080908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EBE263.8000500@tlinx.org>
Linda Walsh wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Linda Walsh wrote:
>>
>>> Controller is a Promise TX4/300
>>> Yeap. After the drive goes offline, does unplugging and replugging
>>> the power cable to the harddrive makes it come back?
>>>
> ----
> No. It hangs the computer. about 2-3 seconds after plugging the
> drives back in. Did it twice to verify it wasn't a fluke. Verified
> drives removed from /dev, then
> plugged them back in -- was able to do about 1-2 ls commands on /dev, then
> keyboard goes dead.
>
> First time I tried unplugging the power cables and replugging --
> that hung...
> 2nd time tried unplugging a sata cable and replugging -- that hung too.
Ah.. okay, so the controller went bonkers then. Any chance you can
shell out ~15 bucks and try a sil SATA controller?
> Hopefully you won't need any more tests of this exact nature...? :-)
Wasn't it fun and empowering? :-P
--
tejun
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2008-10-07 0:37 ` [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd) Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 1:08 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-07 1:36 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 1:42 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-07 10:13 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 22:27 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 23:59 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-10-22 3:40 ` Promise SATA-standby +selftest=hungdrive; Sil works Linda Walsh
2008-10-22 4:13 ` Tejun Heo
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2008-10-08 0:20 ` [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd) Christian Mueller
2008-10-08 0:28 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-12 14:55 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-13 5:16 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-13 7:03 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-13 7:08 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-19 23:40 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 4:18 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-21 7:56 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 9:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-21 9:30 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 7:59 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 8:55 ` Tejun Heo
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