Re: 2.6.18-rc2 ATA Errors

[Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>]

Before that error, there are a bunch of abnormal status messages - 

[44088.228000] ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0x177
[44088.228000] ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0x177
[44088.228000] ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0x177
[44088.228000] ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0x177

On Sunday 16 July 2006 13:46, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> 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