On Mit, 2013-05-08 at 15:40 +0000, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mit, 2013-05-08 at 12:25 +0000, Ming Lei wrote:
> >> From the usbmon in correct case, there is no any ATA commands
> >> at all. I am not sure where these commands are from(user space
> >> or kernel?) in the failure case.
> >
> > I suspect it's strictly kernel - I didn't even mount the drive. Mounting
> > is definitely possible (the drive works fine), but I wanted to show the
> > minimal difference.
> 
> No, in fact, the scsi layer(sd, kernel) has already read the 4 sectors from
> the device successfully, then one inquiry command and some RAW ATA
> commands are sent to device, and the disk starts to behave badly. It is
> very possible that these commands are sent from userspace when the scsi
> disk device shows up and udevd got the notification. And these commands
> aren't sent to the device absolutely on precise.
> 
> Looks some utilities(smartctl, hdparm) may do that.

I used no smartctl or hdparm. It is possible that udevd may have sent
something.

> >
> >> Could you install the upstream 3.9.0 kernel images on 12.04 to
> >> see if the HDD can work well?
> >
> > Sorry, not possible (production machine). I also don't see what would it
> > bring, as the machine with 13.04 that shows the errors was working fine
> > with 12.04.
> 
> Sorry to see that, but you already installed 3.9.0 upstream kernel on
> raring(13.04),
> right? I am wondering there is any difference to install 3.9.0 kernel on 
> 12.04.

Yes, I sent you the usbmon and dmesg for the patched 3.9.0 on raring.
The 12.04 machine is a production server, so I'd rather not play around
with it. I used it just to make sure the removable disk is working OK.

I still don't understand what information you hope to get from that: I
assure you that the test machine worked OK with precise and stopped
working with raring.
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