Andrew Paprocki wrote: > I've been noticing something strange on an AMD Geode LX board that I > have.. I have two SATA drives connected to the onboard Sil3114 chip, > and the drives appear to be continually restarting (soft resetting?) > during normal operation when nothing at all is happening on the > machine. You can hear the drives doing it as well as feel it > physically if you touch the drive. They are spinning down and back up > again over and over again. All the while the OS never prints out any > ata/scsi problems. The only manifestation of this in the kernel is > that if you're doing something w/ the drives, it pauses momentarily > while this happens (for instance, during an ext3 format).
It could be drive power management. Try "hdparm -B 255" or "hdparm -B 254" to turn that off. The output of "smartctl -A" output can also be helpful to figure out what's causing it. -jim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
