Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:53:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>
To: Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide_generic works
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Keenan Pepper wrote:

> I just upgraded the kernel on my System76 Gazelle laptop (basically an
> ASUS Z62FP without the Microsoft tax) and the hard drive began
> freezing every few minutes. I blacklisted ata_piix and the problem
> went away, so that really narrows down where the bug has to be. Here's
> the relevant part of the dmesg:
> 
> [  924.000000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
> frozen
> [  924.000000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
> cdb 0x25 data 8 in
> [  924.000000]          res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask
> 0x4 (timeout)
> [  931.004000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> [  954.028000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> [  954.028000] ata1: soft resetting port
> [  954.380000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> [  954.560000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
> [  954.560000] ata1: EH complete

This seems kind of similar to my problems with ICH7 and other SATA on the 
same comp. See <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7883>. I'm 
getting very similar messages.

Martin
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