Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:20:55 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 SATA error
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To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Gerhard Mack wrote:
> hello, 
> 
> Can someone tell me what this means?
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400000 action 0x2 frozen
> ata1.00: cmd 35/00:00:40:a6:23/00:04:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 
> out
>          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> ata1: soft resetting port
> ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata1: EH complete
> SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
> support DPO
> or FUA

Some command timed out, apparently. From this one can't easily say why. 
Please send full dmesg.

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