Re: SATA drive keeps hard resetting

["Matí­as Alejandro Torres" <torresmat@gmail.com>]

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> Michael Tokarev wrote:
>   
>> Matí­as Alejandro Torres wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a SATA drive in a motherboard with an ATI SB600 chipset that
>>> until now worked just fine.
>>> The disk seems fine but after a while it start making noises (like
>>> spinning up) and the computer freezes during 2 or 3 seconds. I think my
>>> SATA drive is broken, or maybe the motherboard. This is what dmesg says:
>>>
>>> [  229.096000] ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90200 action 0x6 frozen
>>>       
>> See http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=119707355016060&w=2
>> ...
>>     
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 with kernel 2.6.22-14-generic in a dual processor
>>> computer. Below there's some hardware information. The output of dmesg
>>> is attached. Thanks!
>>>       
>> That patch will not apply cleanly to 2.6.22 - it will show rejects
>> in libata-core.c.  Those are OK - it's a cleanup of wrongly blacklisted
>> drives.  The main part - in ahci.c - is the one that's needed.
>>     
>
> Matias's problem doesn't have anything to do with spurious completion.
> PHY RDY changed and HSM violation are completely different error conditions.
>
> I think either the harddrive or power supply is dying.  smartctl -a
> might show something but I'm not too hopeful.  The surest way is to
> connect the drive to a different PSU and see whether the problem goes
> away but if all other drives on the system is fine, I would just throw
> away the harddrive.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
I tried the drive in anotcher PC and it didn't work. I'll see how far I 
can throw it away! Thanks!