On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa
<m...@sentex.net<mailto:m...@sentex.net>> wrote:
At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote:
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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 ?
This is indeed one of the so-called "eco" drives.
The controller is set to SATA (no mention of ahci, though I will
now look at it as suggested earlier to see if I can control the
problem that way).
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.
As far as I can tell, it is a standard 512 byte sector. The
general lack of documentation with this drive (shipped in a
plastic "coffin" -- the only docs supplied with it were the
label itself), but on the WD site, they indicate:
Formatted Capacity 1500301 MB
Used Sectors Per Drive 2930277168
Assuming a "megabyte" is 10^6 bytes, as is standard with
storage vendors
(1500301 * 1000 * 1000) / 2930277168 = 511.99968
So it appears that at least I don't have *that* particular
problem.
Thanks for the suggestions; I had not looked at AHCI before,
and it may well be part of my ticket out of this problem.
A.
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