From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Need help understanding SATA error message. Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:40:37 -0400 Message-ID: <47ECF555.6050000@garzik.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33482 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750922AbYC1Nkk (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:40:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Lund Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tomas Lund wrote: > Hello, > > I have a SuperMicro X7SBi with ICH9R SATA running 64bit linux 2.6.24.4. > I have 4 1TB disks connected to the motherboard, and one of the disks is > logging an error message. Everything is brand new, and hooked up just a > few weeks ago. > > S.M.A.R.T. shows no errors (see output from "smartctl -a" at the bottom > of this email) after running both a short and long offline selftest, and > my question is if its possible to tell from this error message what the > problem is. The result "51/04:00:0a:24:f9" is a bit crypting to me, and > it would be nice to know what the problem actually is before returning > the disk. What a coincidence :) The ata wiki, just created yesterday, had a new page added yesterday: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages Regards, Jeff