From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755648AbZIDFfr (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:35:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752546AbZIDFfq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:35:46 -0400 Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.6]:34141 "EHLO smtp6-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbZIDFfp (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:35:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:35:33 +0200 From: Raphael Manfredi To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.30.5] Diagnosing an IDE lockup with SMART long tests Message-ID: <20090904053532.GA26812@chram.org> References: <6661.1251822466@nice.ram.loc> <4A9DF3E9.9090309@gmail.com> <20090902111927.GA4590@chram.org> <51f3faa70909020742g19007084j19a0ed071aaeffdf@mail.gmail.com> <20090902145225.GA16359@chram.org> <51f3faa70909021724v45d2902ewdb10d5f4a188f2be@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51f3faa70909021724v45d2902ewdb10d5f4a188f2be@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Robert Hancock: : Is it always this drive that's failing? I see there's a second of the : same model, does it show the same behavior? : : > ata1.00: ATA-6: HDS722512VLAT80, V33OA60A, max UDMA/100 : > ata1.00: 241254720 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 : : If only that particular drive shows this problem, then I would start : to suspect a hardware fault with that drive. The fact that it fails : with both IDE and libata (and with ata_piix, which is a really : commonly used and tested libata driver) rather points in that : direction. That was a very good diagnosis. I switched my two Hitachi drives for Maxtors, and the problem went away. I was able to do a SMART long test on all my drives without lockups and without any kernel complaints on the console. Thanks a lot, I had no idea these Hitachi drives had a bad firmware. Looking at the tags on the drives, they were manufactured late 2003 and early 2004. Raphael