We had a generator test at work over the weekend that exceeded the UPS time limits so machines shut down. They've all come back but I'm seeing a lot of messages in /var/log/messages of one of them (every few minutes). I strongly suspect they're telling me to buy a new disk but I need to find and read the friendly manual to be sure. Can anybody confirm my suspicion and/or point me at the correct manual? Thanks, Dave Here's a sample of one burst of messages: Sep 28 13:50:07 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 13:50:07 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 13:50:07 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 13:50:07 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 13:50:07 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 13:50:07 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 13:50:11 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 13:50:11 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 13:50:11 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 13:50:11 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 13:50:11 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 13:50:11 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 13:50:15 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 13:50:15 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 13:50:15 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 13:50:15 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 13:50:20 suse1 avahi-daemon[3595]: Invalid query packet. Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:08:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: 03 73 c0 a3 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 57917603 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 avahi-daemon[3595]: Invalid query packet. Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Sep 28 13:50:28 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org