From: Georg A. <ac...@in...> - 2002-12-29 14:51:44
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:54:53AM -0600, Bruce Allen wrote: > > No, it didn't change anything, it works with hda-hdd and freezes with hde. > > But I made a few more observations: > > > > - The last system call before the freeze is ioctl( ,HDIO_DRIVE_CMD), which is > > merely the first thing smartctl actually calls... > > It sounds like this is a pretty elementary problem. The first ioctl that > smartctl issues is for the mandatory "Drive Identity" command: <...> > Could you please try running hdparm -i or hdparm -I and see if this dies > in the same way? I think that hdparm also issues a drive ID command as > its first command. hdparm -i works as usual (it does not use HDIO_DRIVE_CMD), but hdparm -I causes the same freeze when calling HDIO_DRIVE_CMD. > > So I will contact the pdcx-maintainers... > > If you can reproduce the problem with hdparm, then that ought to get their > attention very quickly. I hope so ;-) Thanks for the hdparm-suggestion... -- Georg Acher, ac...@in... http://wwwbode.in.tum.de/~acher "Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias |