From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751292AbWIOHpa (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750982AbWIOHpa (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:45:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.27]:49805 "EHLO smtp1-g19.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbWIOHpa (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:45:30 -0400 From: Philippe Grenard Reply-To: philippe.grenard@m4x.org To: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: (Another?) Seagate / Sil3112a problem... Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:45:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <45096B80.3040303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45096B80.3040303@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609150945.26129.philippe.grenard@m4x.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ok, here are more informations, and i believe now this is not a software problem of any kind... 3 things i remarked : 1/ when changing cables, i still had problems with ata1 : for me, this would sound like the controller "ata1" has maybe issues, as ata2 worked before... 2/ when swapping cables, I had problems with ata2 too : this would mean the cable had also some issues... 3/ maybe, (but i'm not sure...) the drive needs its own power cable : I mean, when the power cable , which contains a "sata plug" and a "ide plug" is connected to sata alone, it seems to work better than when the cable is connected to both a ide and a sata drive , or the graphic card and the sata drive.... since I got a 430 W True Power PSU from Antec, i don't really believe the problem is a power problem, but maybe it was too much on one cable?? I'll stop at it, since it seems to work fine, with a config like "1drive - ata2 - own power cable". If I go into more troubles, i will try more tests and if I arrive to any kind of conclusion, i will let you know about it! thanks again for the help, Philippe