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From: David Grant <davidgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:11:07
Message-Id: d18977190704160856j52ab55c2r564b46ce8c84d99e@mail.gmail.com
1 On 4/16/07, Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > 2007/4/16, David Grant <davidgrant@×××××.com>:
4 > > I am constantly getting errors like this. I don't think it is a problem
5 > with
6 > > the drive although it might be. I have seen "hard resetting port"
7 > messages
8 > > through my google searches but often they are associated with an error
9 > of
10 > > some sort. I'm using 2.6.19. Anyone else have any experience with this?
11 > >
12 > > Apr 16 01:44:19 sonata kernel: ata1: hard resetting port
13 > > Apr 16 01:44:20 sonata kernel: ata1: hardreset failed, retrying in 5
14 > secs
15 > > Apr 16 01:44:24 sonata kernel: ata1: hard resetting port
16 > > Apr 16 01:44:25 sonata kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113
17 > > SControl 310)
18 > > Apr 16 01:44:25 sonata kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
19 > > Apr 16 01:44:25 sonata kernel: ata1: EH complete
20 > > Apr 16 01:44:25 sonata kernel: SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr
21 > > sectors (320073 MB)
22 > > Apr 16 01:44:25 sonata kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
23 > > Apr 16 01:44:25 sonata kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
24 >
25 > I also had this kind of problem after setting up my new pc from
26 > components.
27 > To fix it i checked the connections of my sata cables which were not
28 > connected tightly.
29 > Maybe you have the same problem.
30
31
32 Thanks for the tip.
33
34 Actually I should have been looking at syslog rather than messages because
35 syslog does show the error:
36
37
38 Apr 16 08:54:45 sonata kernel: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr
39 0x90000 action 0x2 frozen
40 Apr 16 08:54:45 sonata kernel: ata1: hard resetting port
41 Apr 16 08:54:45 sonata kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (device not ready)
42 Apr 16 08:54:45 sonata kernel: ata1: hardreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
43 Apr 16 08:54:50 sonata kernel: ata1: hard resetting port
44 Apr 16 08:54:51 sonata kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113
45 SControl 310)
46 Apr 16 08:54:51 sonata kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
47 Apr 16 08:54:51 sonata kernel: ata1: EH complete
48 Apr 16 08:54:1 sonata kernel: SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr
49 sectors (320073 MB)
50 Apr 16 08:54:51 sonata kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
51 Apr 16 08:54:51 sonata kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
52 Apr 16 08:54:51 sonata kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
53
54
55 --
56 David Grant
57 http://www.davidgrant.ca

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