On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Raphael Manfredi<Raphael_Manfredi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Robert Hancock: > : Can you post what particular command you're running to run the SMART > : test, and also the full dmesg output from bootup? Also CCing > : linux-ide. > > Sure, I'm using: > > smartctl -t long /dev/sda > > to launch the SMART test. > > Here's the requested dmesg output: Is it always this drive that's failing? I see there's a second of the same model, does it show the same behavior? > ata1.00: ATA-6: HDS722512VLAT80, V33OA60A, max UDMA/100 > ata1.00: 241254720 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 If only that particular drive shows this problem, then I would start to suspect a hardware fault with that drive. The fact that it fails with both IDE and libata (and with ata_piix, which is a really commonly used and tested libata driver) rather points in that direction. Errors normally shouldn't lock up the machine, except that if the drive is doing bad things with IORDY for example, it can basically stall the machine forever and there's nothing the kernel can do about it.. -- 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
