Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

[Mike Tancsa]

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 ?


         ---Mike





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