Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:48:56 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: hdparm almost burned my SATA disk |
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J.A. Magallon wrote: > > 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 ?
Nope. hdparm simply does a bunch of read() system calls to fetch data from the drive, same as any other code might do it.
I think you should use the smartmontools to check the drive error logs and find out what REALLY happened there.
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