From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756387AbZBBPQS (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:16:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753170AbZBBPP4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:15:56 -0500 Received: from mail.embedromix.ro ([82.78.144.6]:49701 "EHLO mail.embedromix.ro" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755832AbZBBPPz (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:15:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:15:40 +0200 (EET) From: "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" To: Lennart Sorensen cc: Bill Davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Seagate disk freeze for 30 seconds then comes back (RecovComm 10B8B) In-Reply-To: <20090130212115.GB26062@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: References: <20090128153141.GC26064@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <498244D4.4060903@tmr.com> <20090130212115.GB26062@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:07:48PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Would you expect that firmware would be shared between old tech laptop >> drives and desktop/server drives? Particularly since the laptop drive was >> built before any of the 7200.11 drives? >> >> I think this is a very unlikely part of the problem. Certainly the drive >> might be dying or other hardware issue. > > It does seem unlikely, although if it is a common design flaw in their > firmware, it could have been carried over from older drives and just not > be as noticeable on the older drives with smaller caches and less drive > space. > > Now if the drive is really old, then year it might simply be failing. No, the driver is pretty new (less than 1 year old) and the use is very light. > -- > Len Sorensen > -- Catalin(ux) M. BOIE http://kernel.embedromix.ro/