On 03/28/07 11:17:33, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Geoffrey Leach wrote: > My new ASUS laptop periodically takes a 30 second or so nap. [snip]
What does "hdparm -I /dev/sda" show? It sounds like the drive may have power management enabled, and is spinning down.
hdparm (thanks for the pointer) shows that idle shutdown was configured for the drive. A little digging turned a two-hour idle timeout. Curiously, the problem started after about two hours, but definetly not idle for that time. I disabled idle timeout, and after two hours I get the following. Repeats every 15 minutes or so.
ata2.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.01: (BMDMA stat 0x64) ata2.01: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) ata2: soft resetting port ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/25 ata2: EH complete SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) sda: Write Protect is off SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) sda: Write Protect is off SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
