From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OIROh-0003LC-T1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 May 2010 19:08:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73C40E0C02; Sat, 29 May 2010 19:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38157E0C02 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 19:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwc33 with SMTP id 33so95809wwc.40 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 12:08:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=v2uCmTQHMNDnsTQ0kWl3/2aOIYX7ZCL5PKY0kOhZBIg=; b=b0rDGINSWlOrHy55lBt6ypT1W9y/nn1VUAQuEyQz7LS/caYUhob2r64uFRYSbXg4nu 2dwH8VVaBn00Dd3oQ23xpQIcH075OKBJEyV6VRughvk9dTuP0jQdsKme4V2Sdn2mJM45 i/uRGJNkb9TSfoE9F89Nzy4j+QvfGw0ffITMs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=iLHTco4eVGIZBapWJLP4X+mRObBZb+RiMr8WxW6v/qQTjOIMBNz8sCtYY7bEUHyuZD pWdA3xihsh1E+6WNGphcuU4G/oHkfdo4sGWm6KBn0ybfQElW1+ggcucR21mTiUag6ppM rJBb2xg7YHM9Ap/W8HV1aJc5tYfmt5N9n8hDQ= Received: by 10.227.135.133 with SMTP id n5mr1998569wbt.45.1275160098603; Sat, 29 May 2010 12:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-217-wbs-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y31sm26669057wby.10.2010.05.29.12.08.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 May 2010 12:08:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet? Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 21:05:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-ck; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Volker Armin Hemmann References: <20100526031510.GA5053@solfire> <4C00C154.6010208@alyf.net> <201005291016.39383.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <201005291016.39383.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005292105.05756.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: af667e81-0e6d-4c14-8496-ab0bf91701dc X-Archives-Hash: 9a4ccf0315226ad7e0820f4861ddd383 On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:16:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA > > > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in > > > > > > res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus > > > error) > > > > > > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > > > ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } > > > ata1: soft resetting link > > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 > > > ata1: EH complete > > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 > > > > I think you have driver issues. Might also be the cabling, but I doubt > > it as faulty SATA cables are in my experience quite rare. > > in my experience they are everything but rare. I had several defective > cables - myself and friends of mine. I find SATA connectors are what gives trouble. All fixed nicely with a dab of hot glue, but I ask, why should that be necessary? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com