On 12/01/2009 11:29 PM, Simon Jackson wrote: > We are investigating a similar type of problem seen on several of > our systems. Seemingly at random (though some systems seem more > susceptible than others) we see the ata link reset and subsequently > there is a FAILED TO IDENTIFY error logged. smartctl is unable to > get information from the drive and a power cycle of the drive is > required to bring it back on line. > > I would be interested to know if the ata level errors are similar to > those we are seeing. Posting kernel messages would be helpful. Just in case, there was a similar report where the new devicekit based smart polling caused HSM violation errors and device shutdown on certain SSDs with flaky firmwares. Thanks. -- 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