Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:48:26 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: MD/RAID time out writing superblock |
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Tejun Heo wrote: .. > Oooh, another possibility is the above continuous IDENTIFY tries. > Doing things like that generally isn't a good idea because vendors > don't expect IDENTIFY to be mixed regularly with normal IOs and > firmwares aren't tested against that. Even smart commands sometimes > cause problems. So, finding out the thing which is obsessed with the > identity of the drive and stopping it might help. ..
Bullpucky. That sort of thing, specifically with IDENTIFY, has never been an issue.
I wonder if the IDENTIFY is actually coming from libata EH after something else failed ?
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