Hi Tejun, > >ata1: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4 > >ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > >ata1: command 0xea timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x0 > >ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > The original error is probably a hardware problem. ok, I will try to get this disc replaced after some testing ... > >I had hoped 2.6.17 would fix this since I seem to remember some fixes for > >libata with similar error messages. But at least on my system it did not. > > Can you apply the following patch and see what happens? Patch is installed and system is running: libata version 1.30 loaded. sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 1.2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 10 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xB802 bmdma 0xA800 irq 18 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB400 ctl 0xB002 bmdma 0xA808 irq 18 scsi0 : sata_via ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_via ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP2504C Rev: VT10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 I will monitor this for a some time. And thanks for the quick response! Jochen -- Well, yeah ... I suppose there's no point in getting greedy, is there? << Calvin & Hobbes >> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html