Andrew Paprocki wrote: > Both drives already had PM disabled, visible in hdparm -i: > "AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled" > > Looking at the smart reporting, it is showing both drives have a > FAILING_NOW condition for Seek_Error_Rate. I don't know what to > believe, because it seems like whatever drives I attach to this system > are chewed up and start showing Seek_Error_Rate failure conditions. > > /dev/sda: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 046 046 067 Pre-fail > Always FAILING_NOW 393853 > /dev/sdb: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 044 044 067 Pre-fail > Always FAILING_NOW 2556544 > > I swapped in 2 more drives of the same model, and one exhibits the > same Seek_Error_Rate FAILING_NOW condition. I now have 4 out of 5 of > this same model drive which are failing. They appear to be from the > same batch, so I'm not ruling out some kind of manufacturing defect, > but this definitely seems strange. I guess I'm just fishing to see if > there is anything on the system that could have damaged the drives. Can you connect the drive to a separate different SPU and see whether the problem persists? -- 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
