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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:42:37
Message-Id: 58965d8a1003270941x1d19b5c0g493ba998052654e6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link by Stroller
1 On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Stroller
2 <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 > On 26 Mar 2010, at 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote:
5 >>
6 >> ...
7 >> Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month
8 >> with bad RAM modules), I got this error today:
9 >>
10 >> [48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
11 >> frozen
12 >> [48055.741393] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
13 >> [48055.741398] ata3.00: cmd 60/20:08:38:15:03/01:00:18:00:00/40 tag 1
14 >> ncq 147456 in
15 >> [48055.741400] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
16 >> 0x4 (timeout)
17 >> [48055.741402] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
18 >> [48055.741405] ata3: hard resetting link
19 >> [48056.198746] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
20 >> [48056.210514] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
21 >> [48056.210518] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
22 >> [48056.210523] ata3: EH complete
23 >>
24 >> I really don't understand what it means, but the "timeout", "hard
25 >> resetting link" and "invalid CHS sector 0" look scary to me...
26 >
27 > How new is this motherboard? One may see something similar if one connects a
28 > SATA2 drive to an older SATA motherboard without the jumper (on the drive)
29 > set to restrict it to 1.5 Gbps.
30
31 It is a new motherboard with 8 SATA2 headers, 2 SATA3 (6Gbps) and 2
32 eSATA. I'm only using the internal SATA2 ports now, not the SATA3. One
33 floppy and one IDE also unused :)
34
35 The drive is 2TB and new as well. No jumpers. Thanks.