On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Adrian Sandu wrote: > >> Adrian Sandu wrote: > >>> I tried with a 3.3.8 , same thing happened. I don't understand why my > >>> gentoo (asrock) fails and fedora(laptop) didn't ! :| > > Tried to use the live cd on my laptop, can't reproduce it in any way > on my computer .. > Using the same live cd I can reproduce the problem on the asrock :| > > Tried with 3.3.8, 3.4.11, 3.5.4. I don't get what's causing the drive > to die from a simple hdparm -tT .. :| > The even more weird thing is that it's not dying every time .. > sometimes a hdparm runs successfully once or a few times before dying > .. :| > Guess I just have a bad luck .. ( altough .. I don't believe in "luck" > when it comes to hardware/software/science .. :) ) Since you are using the same live CD on both computers, this has to be caused by a difference in the hardware. What do "lspci -vvv" and "lspci -vvv -n" show on the two computers? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html