Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:10:30 +0200
Stanisław Findeisen <stf@eisenbits.com> wrote:

Interesting !  It only did this for about 10 min. and then stopped.

This problem has shown up in the kernel before.

Not sure how to try and reproduce it.

Well, time to reboot with 2.6.39 and see what happens.



Brian

> On 2011-07-26 07:02, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I could actually hear this happening to the hard disk - but thought it was my imagination.
> > 
> > Linux windy 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > [1289040.878979] ata2: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
> > [1289040.878982] ata2: SError: { DevExch }
> > [1289040.878986] ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
> > [1289040.878989] ata2: hard resetting link
> > [1289043.264515] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-32)
> > [1289043.264520] ata2: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 8 secs
> > [1289050.876509] ata2: hard resetting link
> > [1289053.488513] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-32)
> > [1289053.488518] ata2: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 8 secs
> > [1289060.876509] ata2: hard resetting link
> > [1289063.168016] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
> > [1289063.168024] ata2: EH complete
> > [1289063.168613] ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
> > 
> > anybody have any ideas ?
> > 
> > disk seems to be ok, not making any funny noises - well unless it resets.  I can actually hear it !
> > 
> > I seriously doubt this is the MB or disk.  This behavior started with testing...
> > 
> > Brian
> 
> Have you tried fsck?
>