https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461183 User kairo@kairo.at added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461183#c1 Summary: ATA "soft resetting link" filling up logs Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Alpha 0 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: kairo@kairo.at QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- I updated Factory yesterday, and today, after booting this new version and running it for some time, I noticed that the harddisk made a noise as if it was writing something all the time, so I looked into /var/log/messages and found this: Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9: soft resetting link Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: configured for MWDMA2 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.01: configured for UDMA/100 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9: EH complete Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: sd 8:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: sd 8:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9: soft resetting link Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.00: configured for MWDMA2 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9.01: configured for UDMA/100 Dec 20 15:54:02 robert kernel: ata9: EH complete Those ata9 messages are repeated all over, multiple times per second, sometimes some sd 8:0:1:0 [sdb] are mixed in between. This all sounds quite similar to http://markmail.org/message/deozivoi23ioovyj but this is a 2.6.27 kernel if I'm not mistaken - uname -a says: Linux robert 2.6.27.8-1-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-08 03:55:28 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux The rpm packages are: kernel-source-2.6.27.8-1.1 kernel-pae-2.6.27.8-1.1 kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.8-1.1 kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.8-1.1 from the openSUSE Factory repo. The interesting parts from lspci: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) 03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) The interesting parts from lsmod: Module Size Used by fuse 52488 1 ide_pci_generic 3428 0 ide_core 99412 1 ide_pci_generic ata_generic 4484 0 pata_jmicron 2876 3 cdrom 32288 1 sr_mod sg 29376 0 sd_mod 31424 12 crc_t10dif 1704 1 sd_mod ext3 124712 1 jbd 56764 1 ext3 mbcache 8132 1 ext3 reiserfs 221756 6 ata_piix 16460 0 libata 161112 4 ata_generic,pata_jmicron,ata_piix,ahci dock 11988 1 libata sda is a SATA drive on the ICH8R, sdb is an IDE drive on the JMicron adapter, and I have a CD/DVD drive on each of those adapters as well. Is there any way I can find out which of the drives is on the ata9 it's complaining about? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.