Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> apparently, we have the first case of a quirky implementation of
> idleimmediate with unload feature in a device, or I'm barking up the
> wrong tree, of course. Evgeni Golov has reported the following on
> hdaps-devel:
Aieeeee...
> Evgeni Golov <sargentd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a ThinkPad Z61m with a 100GB S-ATA TOSHIBA MK1032GSX.
> [...]
>> Now I thought I should try the new interface and compiled 2.6.28-rc2,
> [...]
>> After that I could park the heads and got the following in dmesg:
>>
>> ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0xf
>> ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake }
>> ata1: hard resetting link
>> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
>> ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 succeeded
>> ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 filtered out
>> ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 filtered out
>> ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 succeeded
>> ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 filtered out
>> ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 filtered out
>> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
>> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
>> ata1: EH complete
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors: (100 GB/93.1 GiB)
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
>> support DPO or FUA
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors: (100 GB/93.1 GiB)
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
>> support DPO or FUA
>
> The only explanation I could come up with so far is that the head park
> command, for some reason or other, causes the device to set
> SERR_PHYRDY_CHG and SERR_COMM_WAKE in serror, thus triggering the
> handling of hotplug events. Do you have any idea what's really going on
> here and what can / should be done about it?
Is it a laptop? Does 'hdparm -y' cause the same thing? Can you post
"hdparm -I"?
Thanks.
--
tejun
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