From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751114AbWGPRqE (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:46:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750767AbWGPRqE (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:46:04 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.192.83]:53402 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751104AbWGPRqC (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:46:02 -0400 From: Parag Warudkar To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.18-rc2 ATA Errors Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:46:00 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 X-Face: M;&!dfz|m-o'K\Cz\J=6-U&/;8+edm=snaTAX=*NtQpWX@156L1%mHDt3XI%X!5Hw3U+pe nazcjJnz>75*V8\Sz\]3brW#a+Oa,8P7p6L+sVZkP;ZwyeKR0o`*#k2zD&!2Mn,0d3<7qa 6%>g:?bp|XU>`.|?x2l;ounL%k85T/KB"2a|vqpcO*?ngOt-V0Lo5nTA{)k+Pm|okhK`[ikO ;lvKCYCBdfs~Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607161346.00352.kernel-stuff@comcast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just saw the below error in dmesg - (ATA2 is my CD burner and I wasn't doing anything with it as far as I remember) . Drive seems to work fine after the error. What does it mean? $ dmesg |grep ata2 [ 1.496000] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 [ 1.836000] ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 [ 2.016000] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 [44087.904000] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [44087.904000] ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x2 stat 0x50 err 0x0 (HSM violation) [44087.904000] ata2: soft resetting port [44088.340000] ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) [44088.340000] ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) [44088.340000] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs [44093.344000] ata2: soft resetting port [44093.876000] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 [44093.876000] ata2: EH complete