Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote:
> > ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA
> > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in
> >
> >          res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus
> >          error)
> >
> > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> > ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
> > ata1: soft resetting link
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
> > ata1: EH complete
> > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
>
> I think you have driver issues. Might also be the cabling, but I doubt
> it as faulty SATA cables are in my experience quite rare.

in my experience they are everything but rare. I had several defective cables 
- myself and friends of mine.