Re: impending disk failure?

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> 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

Hmpf. Could be anything. But as a first shot I'd try unseating and
re-seating the disk's SATA cable (or exchanging it). And before and
above everything: make frequent backups!

regards
- -- tomás
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