Chuck Ebbert wrote: > From: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245512 > > > The following error consistently appears at apparently random intervals in syslog: > > kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x1001 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > kernel: ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x1001 > FIS=004040a1:00000800) > kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:00:39:2b:cc/00:00:08:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out > kernel: res 40/00:00:39:2b:cc/00:00:08:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) > kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/08:60:e1:2b:cc/00:00:08:00:00/40 tag 12 cdb 0x0 data > 4096 out > kernel: res 40/00:00:39:2b:cc/00:00:08:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) > > Controller is ATI SB600 using the AHCI driver. > 64-bit DMA is disabled. > Disk is: > ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160812AS, 3.ADJ, max UDMA/133 > > > Can't we just turn off NCQ automatically when this happens? After sever such occasions, NCQ will be turned off automatically. Hmm... It's a bit surprising to see this on a Seagate drive tho. Can someone crosscheck this by attaching the drive to an intel ahci? -- tejun - 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