From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496F21381F3 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3FE2E0AEA; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDFA5E0AC5 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (66-208-231-133.ubr01a.rte20201.pa.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [66.208.231.133]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LhfIn-1UI3Z11a4n-00n8rI; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:09:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:09:57 -0500 From: Bruce Hill To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen Message-ID: <20130731190957.GJ1010@server> References: <51F9534A.6010504@asyr.hopto.org> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51F9534A.6010504@asyr.hopto.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:CJl+wm/EV9b9W0eYCH4v8OJgoslP4KAurvYmvRBEtUa 5/SHd9ipMUiCQkoBf/DkloBDlHRd8UpGpmhYuE0XdjyLd+4p3H P2qRU2HKcvnrjra3OJQJKrWPhiZ/AD1b52TvuHY8yVHW6L0XaT R0HYAnOUpANCKWYbIxN9vrZ2iaxabbc2ikIbRHJHo9JtltNrsM Rh8GD9mHXrp58TypxNcdpeWOGEqWRo0z5QhhAG+8rz6Yo6UUNt BmHnNXwDTT+KnK2clASf6J6t8bdIbJzKqmqk88mqRCL+DbJgSL 3RqAZnSVrL4eAWXONfo4zijHPEx1wG4U1Fj4QUo4ImMq1sITSS LQhAhfdB702tkkA52Aco= X-Archives-Salt: c497be01-135d-4801-8408-2e7135769c77 X-Archives-Hash: 7c90ffe4d2387801d46f750ca54880ff On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:11:22PM +0300, Thanasis wrote: > Early during booting phase, dmesg shows: > > [ 0.515651] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdefe000 port > 0xfdefe180 irq 17 > [ 0.833387] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > > But later, it reports lots like the following stanza: > > [164362.715469] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 > action 0xe frozen > [164362.715474] ata6: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed > [164362.715479] ata6: SError: { DevExch } > [164362.715490] ata6: hard resetting link > [164363.433615] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > [164363.446934] ata6: EH complete > > Is it related to a disk drive, and if so, is there a way to know which > drive is on ata6? > > PS: There are two drives attached to the system, reported by dmesg like so: > [ 0.872490] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks: > (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB) > [ 0.874828] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 > GB/232 GiB) Short and sweet... bad SATA cable, bad controller, or bad drive. Long and detailed later. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ support@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting