SATA reset ? Check your cable

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

Seeing stuff like this in kern.log ?

[1288993.989977] ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[1288993.989979] ata2: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[1288993.989982] ata2: SError: { DevExch }
[1288993.989987] ata2: hard resetting link
[1288996.344012] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-32)
[1288996.344016] ata2: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 8 secs
[1289003.988009] ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[1289003.988014] ata2: hard resetting link
[1289006.408015] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
[1289006.408022] ata2: EH complete

Check your cable.  Mine had obvious problems with 2 of the pins.
It was amazing that it worked at all.

Anybody seeing any meteors ?

Brian