It started thus: Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/20:08:60:f1:90/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq dma 16384 out\x0a res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:52:55 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Jun 18 17:52:55 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:53:05 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Jun 18 17:53:05 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:53:40 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Jun 18 17:53:40 asus kernel: ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 3.0 Gbps Jun 18 17:53:40 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:53:45 asus kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320) Jun 18 17:53:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: link online but device misclassified Jun 18 17:53:51 asus kernel: ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) Jun 18 17:53:51 asus kernel: ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Jun 18 17:53:51 asus kernel: ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) Jun 18 17:53:51 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:54:01 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Jun 18 17:54:01 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:54:11 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Jun 18 17:54:11 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:54:46 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Jun 18 17:54:46 asus kernel: ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Jun 18 17:54:46 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:54:51 asus kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jun 18 17:54:51 asus kernel: ata1.00: link online but device misclassified Jun 18 17:55:01 asus kernel: ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) Jun 18 17:55:01 asus kernel: ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Jun 18 17:55:01 asus kernel: ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) Jun 18 17:55:01 asus kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Jun 18 17:55:11 asus kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) [snip ...] Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: ata1.00: link online but device misclassified Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: ata1: EH complete Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#15 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#15 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 03 b5 5d 18 00 00 08 00 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 62217496 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x100000 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS error (device sda3): bdev /dev/sda3 errs: wr 1, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#16 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#16 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 08 7b 76 68 00 00 08 00 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 142308968 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS error (device sda3): bdev /dev/sda3 errs: wr 2, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#24 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#17 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#17 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 02 90 f1 60 00 00 20 00 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 43053408 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x1800 phys_seg 4 prio class 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#24 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e5 00 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS error (device sda3): bdev /dev/sda3 errs: wr 3, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS: error (device sda3) in btrfs_commit_transaction:2280: errno=-5 IO failure (Error while writing out transaction) Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS info (device sda3): forced readonly Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS warning (device sda3): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS: error (device sda3) in cleanup_transaction:1832: errno=-5 IO failure Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS info (device sda3): delayed_refs has NO entry Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#18 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#18 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 01 2b 3b c0 00 00 20 00 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 19610560 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x1000 phys_seg 4 prio class 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS error (device sda2): bdev /dev/sda2 errs: wr 0, rd 1, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: BTRFS info (device sda2): no csum found for inode 14036317 start 0 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#4 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#4 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 01 2b 3b c0 00 00 20 00 Jun 18 17:57:32 asus kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 19610560 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x1000 phys_seg 4 prio class 0 [snip ...] I shut it down, rebooted with LiveUSB, btrfsck'ed it and ... no errors. :-/ I fstrim'med it, fsck'ed it once more and ran a smartctl short test. Still no errors. /dev/sda is an SSD, with /dev/sda2 being mounted as / and /dev/sda3 mounted as /home. I took a fresh back up of /home, just in case, but I don't know what to make of the above. Do you see something familiar in the syslog errors shown above?