> ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff) > ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset > ata2: SRST failed (errno=-19) > ata2: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 10 secs Basically "hello ?" "hello ?" , and no response > According to smart the last time I had the drive available to the system, there is nothing wrong with the drive. I ran bad block scans on the drive a couple days ago and come up with nothing. It only stopped being detected today. Prior to this, it would die at random with something like the following in my logs: > > Jul 23 06:34:15 [kernel] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > Jul 23 06:34:15 [kernel] ata4.00: (BMDMA stat 0x24) > Jul 23 06:34:15 [kernel] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:08:9f:9a:6b/00:00:32:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in > Jul 23 06:34:15 [kernel] res 51/40:08:9f:9a:6b/40:00:32:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Bad blocks and then fell off the bus by the look of the rest of the trace. It was the drive which said media error not us so I would be very suspicious of the drive as a starting point. Alan - 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
