linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> Anyway, what's annoying is that I can't figure out how to bring the >>> drive back on line without resetting the box. It's in a hot-swap enclosure, >>> but power cycling the drive doesn't seem to help. I thought libata hotplug >>> was working? (SiI3132 card, using the sil24 driver.) > >> Yeah, it's working but failing resets are considered highly dangerous >> (in that the controller status is unknown and may cause something >> dangerous like screaming interrupts) and port is muted after that. The >> plan is to handle this with polling hotplug such that libata tries to >> revive the port if PHY status change is detected by polling. Patches >> are available but they need other things to resolved to get integrated. >> I think it'll happen before the summer. > >> Anyways, you can tell libata to retry the port by manually telling it to >> rescan the port (echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan). > > Ah, thank you! I have to admit, that is at least as mysterious as any > Microsoft registry tweak. Polling hotplug should fix this. I thought I would be able to merge it much earlier. I apparently was way too optimistic. :-( >>> (H'm... after rebooting, reallocated sectors jumped from 26 to 39. >>> Something is up with that drive.) > >> Yeap, seems like a broken drive to me. > > Actually, after a few rounds, the reallocated sectors stabilized at 56 > and all is working well again. It's like there was a major problem with > error handling. > > The problem is that I don't know where the blame lies. I'm pretty sure it's the firmware's fault. It's not supposed to go out for lunch like that even when internal error occurs. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
