Re: [smartmontools-support] inactive SATA drives won't stay in standbyor sleep, PATA models did. (fwd)

[Tejun Heo]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Tejun Heo writes:
>  > > - hardreset in sata_promise seems broken. I'll take a closer look
>  > >   at that in about a week's time (I'll be busy with other work the
>  > >   next couple of days).
>  > 
>  > This looks like a rather serious problem, so please take a look at
>  > this.  Also, after the drive went down, does unplugging and replugging
>  > the signal cable fix the problem, if not does doing the same thing
>  > with the power cable make any difference?
> 
> I couldn't bring the port back up with any combination of signal/power
> cable hotplugging.

Heh.. that rules out drive firmware stuck in wonderland.

> Even rmmod sata_promise; modprobe sata_promise failed to bring the
> port back up. Hence my suspicion that hardreset is borked or doesn't
> kick in.

It looks like the controller requires harder or more proper kick in
the ass to return to sane state.  :-)

-- 
tejun
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