I'm running the following kernel on 13.1 3.12.0-34.ge8fa6b4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 4 13:06:33 UTC 2013 (e8fa6b4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux And seeming the following message in dmesg with depressing regularity: [45080.377905] ata2.00: exception Emask n SAct 0x20 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [45080.377911] ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [45080.377917] ata2.00: cmd 60/01:28:00:2a:d4/00:00:4c:00:00/40 tag 5 ncq 512 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [45080.377920] ata2.00: status: { DRDY } [45080.377924] ata2: hard resetting link [45085.734173] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [45090.428230] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) [45090.428236] ata2: hard resetting link [45095.784590] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) My question is do I have a bad disk, cable, motherboard or what might it be and how do I test? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org