On 2014-08-10 10:59 (GMT-0500) Larry Finger composed:
[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?
It is not a kernel problem - as you guessed, it is hardware. Those kinds of errors are not usually coming from the heads and platter assembly, but from the communication between the controller and the disk. If you are lucky, reseating or replacing the cable will cure the problem.
Such errors show up on tty10 on all my systems with SATA cards in PCI slots any time any of many different eSATA disks and cases or adapters and differing cables get connected, e.g.: 04:00.0 SATA controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
In any case, running the long test with smartctl would be a good thing to do. Assuming that your disk is /dev/sda, use
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
After waiting for the test to complete, you can see the results with
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