Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:04:59 +0200 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: hdparm almost burned my SATA disk |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:01:53 +0200, "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
> Hi all... > > I have seen a very strange thing. > I was trying hdparm -tT on a SATA disk, it did the buffered part OK, > and hanged my box in the non-buffered measure. After waiting some minutes, > I did a SysRQ-s-u-b, and the the disk began to give many read errors on > sectors and could not boot because journal was not present and many other > errors. > > After some warm and cold boots, finally the box came up correctly. > I suspect that something that hdparm did left my disk dumb. But what ? > I will keep away from hdparm for some time... > > Any idea ? >
Oops I forgot. Kernel is 2.6.14-rc2-mm2. hdparm is v6.1 Filesystem is ext3 on a
werewolf:~/soft/kernel/patches/2.6.13-jam8# hdparm -I /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: Maxtor 6L160M0 Serial Number: L40MRV4G Firmware Revision: BANC1G10
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