From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: HSM violation errors Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:57:35 -0600 Message-ID: <4771FB5F.6070608@shaw.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]:27221 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751238AbXLZG5i (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:57:38 -0500 In-reply-to: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Mitchell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Mitchell wrote: > I'm seeing errors in dmesg and the like. It appears to be somewhat > similar to the issue reported here: > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/8/25/164711 except > that my machine doesn't freeze, and everything seems normal -- > hopefully nothing like silent corruption is going on. Also it's on > brand new hardware...Intel ICH8 mobile chipset with AHCI. Output from > dmesg, hdparm -I /dev/sda and hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda is > below...please let me know if there's anything else that would be of > use (and, of course, if this is something I should be worried about > :-) ). > > Thanks. > Jeff > > > dmesg: > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0xfffd SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata1.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x1 SAct=0xfffd > FIS=005040a1:00000002 You didn't say what kernel you were using, but in the latest kernels this spurious completion check was removed since it was broken, so this error shouldn't happen anymore. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/