I am getting lots of these errors under moderate load. This is a new drive, so I suspect some driver incompatibility between the driver (AHCI) and the hard drive (WD Raptor 10K 74G). Lspci: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4356 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at e800 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at e400 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at e000 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at dc00 [size=16] Region 5: Memory at dffffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Log: [ 841.645699] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x400100 action 0x2 frozen [ 841.645708] ata1.00: (irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error) [ 841.645719] ata1.00: cmd 61/00:08:17:31:f1/04:00:03:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data 524288 out [ 841.645721] res 40/00:18:5f:fa:b9/00:00:01:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) [ 841.947855] ata1: soft resetting port [ 842.447515] ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) [ 842.447526] ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs [ 847.445028] ata1: hard resetting port [ 854.938851] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) [ 877.923808] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0x80) [ 877.923816] ata1: COMRESET failed (device not ready) [ 877.923822] ata1: hardreset failed, retrying in 5 secs [ 882.921328] ata1: hard resetting port [ 883.377028] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 883.391971] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 883.391992] ata1: EH complete [ 883.392186] SCSI device sda: 145226112 512-byte hdwr sectors (74356 MB) [ 883.392381] sda: Write Protect is off [ 883.392387] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 883.392594] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 970.422983] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x7 SErr 0x400100 action 0x2 frozen [ 970.422993] ata1.00: (irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error) [ 970.423005] ata1.00: cmd 61/a8:00:0f:1d:cb/02:00:01:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 348160 out [ 970.423008] res 40/00:08:bf:24:cb/00:00:01:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) [ 970.423018] ata1.00: cmd 61/a8:08:bf:24:cb/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data 86016 out [ 970.423021] res 40/00:08:bf:24:cb/00:00:01:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) [ 970.423031] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:10:97:41:c5/00:00:03:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out [ 970.423034] res 40/00:08:bf:24:cb/00:00:01:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) [ 970.725166] ata1: soft resetting port [ 970.725177] ata1: softreset failed (port busy but CLO unavailable) [ 970.725184] ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs [ 975.722701] ata1: hard resetting port [ 983.214510] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) [ 1006.199471] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0x80) [ 1006.199478] ata1: COMRESET failed (device not ready) [ 1006.199485] ata1: hardreset failed, retrying in 5 secs [ 1011.196989] ata1: hard resetting port [ 1011.652683] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 1011.667748] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1011.667766] ata1: EH complete [ 1011.667964] SCSI device sda: 145226112 512-byte hdwr sectors (74356 MB) [ 1011.668157] sda: Write Protect is off [ 1011.668163] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 1011.668370] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA - 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