Tejun Heo writes: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > - smartctl -n standby waking Linda's disks from standby is probably > > a disk firmware issue or a smartctl issue. I see no evidence that > > sata_promise is to blame for that. > > /me agrees. I think it's most likely a problem in the firmware. > > > - hardreset in sata_promise seems broken. I'll take a closer look > > at that in about a week's time (I'll be busy with other work the > > next couple of days). > > This looks like a rather serious problem, so please take a look at > this. Also, after the drive went down, does unplugging and replugging > the signal cable fix the problem, if not does doing the same thing > with the power cable make any difference? I couldn't bring the port back up with any combination of signal/power cable hotplugging. Even rmmod sata_promise; modprobe sata_promise failed to bring the port back up. Hence my suspicion that hardreset is borked or doesn't kick in. -- 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
