Brad Campbell wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Brad Campbell wrote: >>> Tejun Heo wrote: >>>> Brad Campbell wrote: >>>>> Brad Campbell wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> http://www.fnarfbargle.com/CIMG1029.JPG (I have posted this screen >>>>>> shot previously. It's still doing exactly the same thing on both >>>>>> boxes). >>>>>> >>>>> git-bisect shows up this commit as the guilty party. I can't just >>>>> revert >>>>> it on a recent tree though. >>>>> Will investigate further. >>>> Weird. Does 'hdparm -y /dev/sdX' work? >>> Very interesting indeed.. >>> >>> for i in /dev/sd* ; do echo $i ; hdparm -y $i ; done >>> >>> sda-sdh worked fine.. sdi locked the box. >>> >>> So it's dying on the 3rd or 4th controller. >> >> That's weird. You seem to have the same controllers and drives. What >> happens if you spin down from hdi upwards? >> > > Any attempt to spin down sdi-sdo in any order locks hard. Any attempt to > spin down sda-sdh works in any combination/permutation. Hmmm... I'm out of ideas. It definitely sounds like some sort of hardware problem to me. I think the best way to diagnose the problem is playing the tedious but often rewarding add-remove-swap game with the hardware and see to which piece or combination of pieces the problem is attached. Thanks. -- 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
