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 1NvH9B-00047T-KU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:32:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59924E09C6; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB41E09C6 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.23.170.144] (helo=anti-virus03-07) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1NvH8V-0004fy-As for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:32:11 +0000 Received: from [94.172.79.125] (helo=ep.mine.nu) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1NvH8U-000762-Nm for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:32:10 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (apollo [192.168.1.102]) (Authenticated sender: neil) by ep.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C884320A001 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:18:18 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4BAD27B9.5010203@ep.mine.nu> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:31:37 +0000 From: Neil Walker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Thunderbird/3.0.3 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link References: <58965d8a1003261317j24856b5cied7c5bf4b83ebf50@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a1003261317j24856b5cied7c5bf4b83ebf50@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ep-mine-nu-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ep-mine-nu-MailScanner-ID: C884320A001.ACFC6 X-ep-mine-nu-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ep-mine-nu-MailScanner-From: neil@ep.mine.nu X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: deee50c6-bc65-41ca-b583-b46ec30caaaa X-Archives-Hash: f5cf133034b586c80e0941a320a4dcc9 On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers. > I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific drivers have always worked better for me. > Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the > motherboard, since it is running 6 hdd's and 1 DVD-ROM. I'll have to > research to see which voltage is related to this. (X58 motherboard) > No, no, no! Don't touch the motherboard voltages! They have nothing to do with the connected drives. Surely you must have noticed that power to the drives comes directly from the power supply. If the drives are not receiving sufficient voltage, a new, bigger power supply is the only option. Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.