- Insufficient power available for your hard disk, causing it to spin up then spin down again
The more likely possibilities are 1 and 3.
If you can get another hard disk to test, that will narrow down the possibilities.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM, surreal
<firewalrus@gmail.com> wrote:
>From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on starting the computer..
I typed dmesg and found these messages
[ 304.694936] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 304.694939] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 304.694954] ata4: soft resetting link
[ 304.938280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 304.938293] ata4: EH complete
[ 304.970866] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
[ 304.970873] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26
[ 304.970884] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:38:f6:2a:94/00:00:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 28672 in
[ 304.970887] res 51/84:18:16:2b:94/84:00:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30 (host bus error)
[ 304.970891] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 304.970895] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 304.970909] ata4: soft resetting link
[ 305.218280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 305.218296] ata4: EH complete
[ 305.880378] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
[ 305.880385] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26
[ 305.880397] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:80:fe:22:8e/00:01:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 196608 in
[ 305.880399] res 51/84:60:1e:23:8e/84:01:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30 (host bus error)
[ 305.880404] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 305.880408] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 305.880423] ata4: soft resetting link
[ 306.126281] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 306.126297] ata4: EH complete
What do these messages mean? What is the solution to prevent these messages from appearing? Help!
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Harshad Joshi