From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Scary Intel SATA errors.. Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:56:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20061114150454.GA11900@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:49838 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935889AbWK1Q5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:57:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061114150454.GA11900@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff, what does this mean: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x21) ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xca Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) ata1: soft resetting port ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) ata1: soft resetting port ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) ata1: soft resetting port ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x214F ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1.00: disabled ata1: EH complete followed by various IO errors: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 335093 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 896217445 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 112001027 lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0 .. nasty, nasty, nasty. This is with ata_piix on a Intel i965 motherboard (everything Intel) Linus