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Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.ping.de> writes: > Hallo everyone > > Today one of my SCSI drives decided to shutdown for no obvious reason. > I suspect heat or a bad power supply. Syslog shows a repeating stream > of the following: > > Jul 30 15:51:30 tony kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key=0x2 > Jul 30 15:51:30 tony kernel: ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x2 > Jul 30 15:51:30 tony kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 617358 > > Google revealed[1] that the drive is waiting for a START UNIT command, > but it seems that the kernel is not attempting to spin up the drive > again. > > After a complete power-cycle the drive worked again. I just wanted to > know if this is a shortcoming in the SCSI error handling codepath. I'll have to report that I've seen a few drives behaving similarly, both on 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Is that an expected behavior from SCSI hard drives? Any SCSI guru would be able to answer this one? Phil. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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