On 5/24/07, Florian Effenberger <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, > Data integrity wise there should be no problem but your error rate is > pretty high and eventually will make libata turn off NCQ and/or speed > down PHY speed. switching ports is not easy. Both on-board SATA controllers are being used, and the error seems to occur on all ports. > Yeap, your data is safe. With timeouts, data transfer speed can be much > lower tho. It definitely seems something is wrong with your hardware setup. I will try to use another test disk. Right now we use different models of Western Digital "RAID edition".
iiuc, raid editions are designed to fail fast thus allowing an alternate drive to provide the data rather than having to wait thru multiple internal retries. Could this just be a case of the drive functioning as designed? Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century - 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
