Hi, > Given that the last one was a hardware issue, I bought a new controller. > Despite my bad luck, given my price-range promise still seemed to be the > one > with the most good reports, so I went with that. I was going to go with a > sil, but I couldn't find one.. Unfortunately, I don't have a solution/fix for you, but out of curiosity, what hard-disks you have problems with ? Also what is the exact model of your SATA-controller ? > Anyway, things are MUCH better now... but about once a week, I get: > > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata2.00: (port_status 0x00001000) > ata2.00: cmd c8/00:80:9a:71:d0/00:00:00:00:00/ea tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 65536 > in > res 40/00:00:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x24 (host bus > error) > ata2: soft resetting port > ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 > ata2: 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 Regards, Tomi Orava - 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