Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:03:54 +0200 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standby or sleep, PATA models did. (fwd) |
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Tejun Heo writes: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > - smartctl -n standby waking Linda's disks from standby is probably > > a disk firmware issue or a smartctl issue. I see no evidence that > > sata_promise is to blame for that. > > /me agrees. I think it's most likely a problem in the firmware. > > > - hardreset in sata_promise seems broken. I'll take a closer look > > at that in about a week's time (I'll be busy with other work the > > next couple of days). > > This looks like a rather serious problem, so please take a look at > this. Also, after the drive went down, does unplugging and replugging > the signal cable fix the problem, if not does doing the same thing > with the power cable make any difference?
I couldn't bring the port back up with any combination of signal/power cable hotplugging. Even rmmod sata_promise; modprobe sata_promise failed to bring the port back up. Hence my suspicion that hardreset is borked or doesn't kick in.
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