impending disk failure?

[Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>]

Hi,

T'm occasionally getting this message in syslog on my jessie box:

Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600489] ata3.00: exception Emask 
0x10 SAct 0x10 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600501] ata3.00: irq_stat 
0x08000000, interface fatal error
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600509] ata3: SError: { Handshk }
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600517] ata3.00: failed command: 
WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600531] ata3.00: cmd 
61/c0:20:90:6e:eb/01:00:22:00:00/40 tag 4 ncq 229376 out
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600531]          res 
40/00:20:90:6e:eb/00:00:22:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600538] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600547] ata3: hard resetting link
Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.092521] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 
Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.099092] ata3.00: configured for 
UDMA/133
Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.099121] ata3: EH complete


Can anyone please explain what it means, and whether I should be worried?

Thanks,
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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England |