From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Kowalczyk Subject: array failure Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:34:47 -0800 Message-ID: <4B345D07.7020007@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f176.google.com ([209.85.211.176]:40964 "EHLO mail-yw0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750737AbZLYGeM (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:34:12 -0500 Received: by ywh6 with SMTP id 6so8809402ywh.4 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:34:11 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, Can anyone help me better understand these messages? I'm trying to determine the cause of the failure, cable, hd, disk controller, etc? The below is what appears when I reset the disk array, Dec 24 22:31:40 atlas kernel: [ 1485.045504] ata2: hard resetting link Dec 24 22:31:42 atlas kernel: [ 1487.447432] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) Dec 24 22:31:42 atlas kernel: [ 1487.699172] ata2.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe8) Dec 24 22:31:42 atlas kernel: [ 1487.722552] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs Dec 24 22:31:47 atlas kernel: [ 1492.718316] ata2: hard resetting link Dec 24 22:31:49 atlas kernel: [ 1494.916202] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) Dec 24 22:31:50 atlas kernel: [ 1495.167944] ata2.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe4) Dec 24 22:31:50 atlas kernel: [ 1495.179404] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs Dec 24 22:31:55 atlas kernel: [ 1500.175099] ata2: hard resetting link Dec 24 22:31:57 atlas kernel: [ 1502.372985] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) Dec 24 22:31:57 atlas kernel: [ 1502.624727] ata2.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe4) Dec 24 22:31:57 atlas kernel: [ 1502.639478] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs Dec 24 22:32:02 atlas kernel: [ 1507.635876] ata2: hard resetting link Dec 24 22:32:04 atlas kernel: [ 1509.833763] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) Dec 24 22:32:04 atlas kernel: [ 1509.833798] ata2: EH complete Thanks, Matt