Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932489AbXB1PCy (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:02:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932973AbXB1PCy (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:02:54 -0500 Received: from mtl.rackplans.net ([69.90.0.18]:39556 "EHLO mtl.rackplans.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932489AbXB1PCy (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:02:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:02:52 -0500 (EST) From: Gerhard Mack X-X-Sender: gmack@mtl.rackplans.net To: Tomas Carnecky cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.20 SATA error In-Reply-To: <45E59C07.7020902@dbservice.com> Message-ID: References: <45E58FC7.7020102@shaw.ca> <45E59C07.7020902@dbservice.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1502 Lines: 42 On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Gerhard Mack wrote: > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > > [...] > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 > > [...] > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/44 > > [...] > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 > > [...] > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/25 > > [...] > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/16 > > [...] > > ata1.00: configured for PIO4 > > I have the same problem, though it appears randomly. It seems like the chances > for this happening are bigger if I do heavy disk I/O. The only way to fix that > is to shut down the computer and wait a few seconds before rebooting (if I > don't wait, the problem doesn't go away). I bought new harddrives, so it's > most likely not caused by the drives, I also tried putting the drives onto a > different controller (I have four on-board SATA controller and two > harddrives), that didn't help either, so I suspect its the cable - SATA cables > are very error-prone, I don't trust them as they don't hold that tightly in Well that's the strange thing.. I've done heavy I/O on this with no trouble. This happened overnight when my system should have been mostly idle Gerhard -- Gerhard Mack gmack@innerfire.net <>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/