From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938384AbXHICYZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:24:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760699AbXHICYQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:24:16 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:54577 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759277AbXHICYQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:24:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46BA7ACB.20706@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:24:11 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Fawcett CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: sata_sil24 problems References: <46BA6E79.8090706@parkingdenied.com> In-Reply-To: <46BA6E79.8090706@parkingdenied.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ross Fawcett wrote: > The errors I get are like these. > > [ 1073.018375] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > [ 1073.018382] ata4.00: (irq_stat 0x00020002, device error via SDB FIS) > [ 1073.018389] ata4.00: cmd 60/80:00:80:6f:b6/00:00:04:00:00/40 tag 0 > cdb 0x0 data 65536 in > [ 1073.018391] res 41/40:00:f3:6f:b6/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask > 0x9 (media error) Your device is signalling a media error. That's hardware going ker-flop, with the controller happily reporting that fact back to us. Jeff