Re: Need help understanding SATA error message.

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Tomas Lund wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Tomas Lund wrote:
> 
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 
>> SErr 0x0 action 0x0
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel: ata2.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel: ata2.00: cmd 
>> ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel:          res 
>> 51/04:00:0a:24:f9/00:00:00:00:00/a9 Emask 0x1 (device error)
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel: ata2.00: error: { ABRT }
>> Apr  2 04:14:17 envy kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> Apr  2 04:14:18 envy kernel: ata2: EH complete
>> Apr  2 04:14:18 envy kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte 
>> hardware sectors (1000205 MB)
>> Apr  2 04:14:18 envy kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>> Apr  2 04:14:18 envy kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
>> Apr  2 04:14:18 envy kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, 
>> read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> 
> The errors continue to occur at random interval, even after i stoped the 
> copy-alot-of-files-and-sync stresstest.
> 
> Any other ideas or things to try?

Looks like a broken drive to me.  Can you put it on a different controller?

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tejun