[dm-devel] Hard drives shutting themselves off in RAID mode

[Greg Freemyer]

> I honestly can't find any fault in the hardware, and no logical
> explanation for the software deciding to do this. Anyways, I'll ask the
> IDE guys. If some kind soul could inform me of the location of the
> latest version of their #upstream patch, I´d be mighty grateful. I
> didn't see any mention of it in the mailinglist archives for this month.
>
I suspect your looking in the wrong archives.

Quoting a 3-week old post from the linux-ide list:

The 'upstream' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git

contains the following updates (queued for 2.6.18):

 drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.c         |    7
 drivers/scsi/Makefile             |    2
 drivers/scsi/ahci.c               |  436 +++---
 drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c           |   25
 drivers/scsi/libata-bmdma.c       |  143 ++
 drivers/scsi/libata-core.c        | 2525 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/scsi/libata-eh.c          | 1561 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c        |  408 +++---
 drivers/scsi/libata.h             |   24
 drivers/scsi/pdc_adma.c           |   10
 drivers/scsi/sata_mv.c            |   70 -
 drivers/scsi/sata_nv.c            |   13
 drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c       |   39
 drivers/scsi/sata_qstor.c         |   14
 drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c           |   66
 drivers/scsi/sata_sil24.c         |  615 +++++----
 drivers/scsi/sata_sis.c           |    3
 drivers/scsi/sata_svw.c           |    5

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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century