I am seeing a message in my logs for a disk identified as 'ata12'. [ 540.600343] ata12: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 540.600365] ata12: EH complete [ 540.602844] ata12: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen [ 540.602845] ata12: irq_stat 0x80000040, connection status changed [ 540.602847] ata12: SError: { CommWake DevExch } [ 540.602851] ata12: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 540.602852] ata12: hard resetting link This does not look promising. Oddly, I do not know which disk this is. I am guessing that the '12' is the same as I see with lsscsi: [12:0:0:0] disk Generic Ultra HS-SD/MMC 1.82 /dev/sdg And that one is some USB disk that I am fairly certain is not connected anywhere. All known disks are accounted for. /dev/sdg is /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_Ultra_HS-SD_MMC_F120C6023A1B-0:0 If I check the USB devices, a likely culprit is: Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0424:4060 Standard Microsystems Corp. Ultra Fast Media Reader So I an guessing that on the motherboard there is such a thing. But there is no connection on the outside of the box. I am not using or needing it. Is there any way to disable a device like this so that it 'goes away'? The messages in the system log appear every second or so. I don't need the clutter... -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org