Bug#599901: base: System Crash with ata3.00 error

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Kevin,

Kevin wrote:

> I encountered a serious problem of ata3.00 error when I was running the system,
> /var/log/kernel.log:
> kernel: [  872.444136] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> kernel: [  872.444146] ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
> kernel: [  872.444153] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA

Sorry for the long silence.  Is this reproducible (e.g., does it happen
often, or do you know how to provoke it)?  Please attach output from

 /usr/share/bug/linux-image-$(uname -r)/script 3>&1

so we can get to know what hardware and drivers you are using.  Does
the hard drive seem to be in good shape ("smartctl -a <name of disk>"
from smartmontools can help figure that out)?  Is there a crash or
just a delay during bootup?

Jonathan