On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:01:53 +0200, "J.A. Magallon" wrote: > Hi all... > > I have seen a very strange thing. > I was trying hdparm -tT on a SATA disk, it did the buffered part OK, > and hanged my box in the non-buffered measure. After waiting some minutes, > I did a SysRQ-s-u-b, and the the disk began to give many read errors on > sectors and could not boot because journal was not present and many other > errors. > > After some warm and cold boots, finally the box came up correctly. > I suspect that something that hdparm did left my disk dumb. But what ? > I will keep away from hdparm for some time... > > Any idea ? > Oops I forgot. Kernel is 2.6.14-rc2-mm2. hdparm is v6.1 Filesystem is ext3 on a werewolf:~/soft/kernel/patches/2.6.13-jam8# hdparm -I /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: Maxtor 6L160M0 Serial Number: L40MRV4G Firmware Revision: BANC1G10 -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.13-jam8 (gcc 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0))