SATA drive lock-up

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Derek Ragona wrote:
> Søren,
> 
> My setup is as follows:
> Maxtor 6Y120MO 120GB SATA drive
> Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA
> Intel® Desktop Board D845GEBV2
> 1GB RAM
> 1.7 GHz Celeron CPU

Ok, I'll try to get something semialr setup here and try to reproduce.

> If there is some way to get more debugging information, please let me 
> know.  If you want the ATA subsystem rebuilt differently for more 
> debugging, I'm happy to do that as well.  If you want access to the box, I 
> will give you that too.

Hmm debugging this kind of problems most often requires "hands on" access 
to the HW, in some cases the ability to hook up measuring/test equipment 
greatly enhances the problem hunting (or is the only way to catch it).

-Søren