On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:07 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > According to the errata information from Silicon Image, SiI3512 does not > have m15w bug, neither does ST3200822AS. So, this must be something else > and you're not an isolated case. Glad to hear it. In that case, you'd probably like to hear about the other disk as well. Originally, I suspected the disk was about to fail, and bought another one - a Samsung SP2504C. I never succeeded in copying the data off the Seagate onto the Samsung. The farthest I got was about 2 gigs. The error messages would be from sdb (the Samsung): Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: ata2: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0xd1 host_stat 0x61 Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0xd1/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: ata2: status=0xd1 { Busy } Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002 Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: sdb: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: Additional sense: Scsi parity error Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 15657695 Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1957204 Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Feb 21 20:08:31 parus kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0xD1 on port 0xF88020C7 I didn't bring this up originally, since it looked like the Seagate problem was a known bug, while Google didn't turn up anything on Samsung. After reading linux-ide through gmane, I've seen similar issues about Samsung. You guys should get an archive which Google knows about :-) > So, it would be very nice if you can test fixes we'll be able to come up with. Certainly. Regards Jon - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html