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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:10:32
Message-Id: 20130731190957.GJ1010@server
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen by Thanasis
1 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:11:22PM +0300, Thanasis wrote:
2 > Early during booting phase, dmesg shows:
3 >
4 > [ 0.515651] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdefe000 port
5 > 0xfdefe180 irq 17
6 > [ 0.833387] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
7 >
8 > But later, it reports lots like the following stanza:
9 >
10 > [164362.715469] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000
11 > action 0xe frozen
12 > [164362.715474] ata6: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
13 > [164362.715479] ata6: SError: { DevExch }
14 > [164362.715490] ata6: hard resetting link
15 > [164363.433615] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
16 > [164363.446934] ata6: EH complete
17 >
18 > Is it related to a disk drive, and if so, is there a way to know which
19 > drive is on ata6?
20 >
21 > PS: There are two drives attached to the system, reported by dmesg like so:
22 > [ 0.872490] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks:
23 > (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
24 > [ 0.874828] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250
25 > GB/232 GiB)
26
27 Short and sweet... bad SATA cable, bad controller, or bad drive.
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