Tejun Heo wrote: ..
Oooh, another possibility is the above continuous IDENTIFY tries. Doing things like that generally isn't a good idea because vendors don't expect IDENTIFY to be mixed regularly with normal IOs and firmwares aren't tested against that. Even smart commands sometimes cause problems. So, finding out the thing which is obsessed with the identity of the drive and stopping it might help.
.. Bullpucky. That sort of thing, specifically with IDENTIFY, has never been an issue. I wonder if the IDENTIFY is actually coming from libata EH after something else failed ? -- 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