On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa <m...@sentex.net> wrote:

> At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote:
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>
>> Device Model:     WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1
>> Serial Number:    WD-WCAVY2700359
>>
>
> Isnt that one of those Western Digital Green drives ? I seem to recall a
> number of people complaining about similar issues where the drive stalls.
> Perhaps a firmware update ? Or perhaps a way to disable the power
> saving/spin down features ?  Is your controller set to AHCI, or regular
> SATA. what does /var/run/dmesg.boot show ?
>


In addition to what I pointed out earlier, I believe that is also a 4k
sector drive.  You'll need to align your partitions accordingly.


-- 
Adam Vande More
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