Subject: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: USB HD gives I/O errors while spinning up
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
Severity: important
I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent hard drive. Seagate sets the drive
to spin down after about 15 minutes if there is no activity. There is no way
to change this setting on the drive.
The drive works well until it spins down. It looks like the first I/O
sent to
the drive after it spins down fails. Here are the relevant lines from the
initialization:
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
After I mount a filesystem, wait 16 minutes, and then attempt to access it:
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
sd 0:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key: Not Ready
Additional sense: Logical unit not ready, initializing command
required
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 623378511
EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode
block - inode=38961153, block=77922306
Aborting journal on device sda1.
sd 0:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key: Not Ready
Additional sense: Logical unit not ready, initializing command
required
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4375
printk: 119 messages suppressed.
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 539
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key: Not Ready
Additional sense: Logical unit not ready, initializing command
required
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 63
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
I spent some time looking through the kernel source, and I found an
interesting
note in scsi_eh_stu:
If commands are failing due to not ready, initializing command required,
try revalidating the device, which will end up sending a start unit.
I wasn't able to follow the usb-storage code well enough to know if this
command is being issued. I do know that the drive starts to work about 7
seconds after all of these error messages come out. I assume that this is
the amount of time that it needs to spin up.
I see similar behavior on older kernels (including the current version of
2.6.8 that shipped with Sarge). I see a long pause when the drive spins up
under Windows, but I don't get I/O errors from the system.
I'd be willing to investigate further, but it would help to know a bit more
about what error handling routine is running. I have done some kernel
programming in the past, but the USB code is a bit new.
Thanks for your help,
Greg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration
management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85g tools for generating an
initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux
kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-18 Yet Another mkInitRD
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries [i
-- debconf information:
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