From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
Cc: Smartmontools Mailing List
<smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Bruce Allen <ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd)
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:08:02 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EAB672.3010209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EAAF2E.4060407@tlinx.org>
Linda Walsh wrote:
> So the real problem is why issuing a smart command isn't re-starting
> the drive -- or bringing it back from standby. Whereas a "normal" disk
> read seems to bring it back to normal functioning just fine (and can
> then do the smart-test).
>
> Does this give anyone ideas about where the problem might be? Also
> sorta explains why my hangs have been infrequent, because I've been
> periodically polling the temps of all the drives -- and only when I stop
> the polling would the drive timeout, then die the next morning when
> smartd tried to run a short test between 1 and 2 am.
Sounds like a firmware problem to me. Issuing ATA_CMD_VERIFY on block
0 before issuing test commands should work around the problem. Also,
which controller are you using? Can you post the failing kernel log?
--
tejun
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2008-10-07 0:37 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 1:08 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-10-07 1:36 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 1:42 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-07 10:13 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 22:27 ` Linda Walsh
2008-10-07 23:59 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-22 3:40 ` Promise SATA-standby +selftest=hungdrive; Sil works Linda Walsh
2008-10-22 4:13 ` Tejun Heo
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2008-10-08 0:20 ` [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd) Christian Mueller
2008-10-08 0:28 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-12 14:55 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-13 5:16 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-13 7:03 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-13 7:08 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-19 23:40 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 4:18 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-21 7:56 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 9:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-10-21 9:30 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 7:59 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-10-21 8:55 ` Tejun Heo
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