Hi Jeff, What does this mean? ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:67:40:68/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:c3:52:43/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:c3:52:43/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xCC07 ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xCC07 ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xCC07 ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd ca/00:38:8f:7a:01/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 28672 out res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xCC07 ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xCC07 ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0xCC07 ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd ca/00:40:ab:e2:4a/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 32768 out res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Is this a hardware problem? Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/) - To unsubscribe from this list: 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