Hello, Marc. Marc Bejarano wrote: > hi, tejun. i've been using your libata-tj-2.6.22-rc6-20070702 kernel on > a centos 4 machine for a while with some 3124's and 3726's. up until > today, i hadn't seen any issues. > > while trying to shut the machine down, this happened: > === > Jul 27 14:58:44 dell shutdown: shutting down for system halt > Jul 27 14:59:15 dell kernel: ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr > 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Jul 27 14:59:15 dell kernel: ata8.00: cmd > 61/10:00:a7:0a:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 8192 out > Jul 27 14:59:15 dell kernel: res > 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Device times out write. > Jul 27 14:59:15 dell kernel: ata8.15: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:17 dell kernel: ata8.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 > SControl 0) > Jul 27 14:59:17 dell kernel: ata8.00: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:27 dell kernel: ata8.00: softreset failed (timeout) > Jul 27 14:59:27 dell kernel: ata8.00: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:28 dell kernel: ata8.00: COMRESET failed (errno=-5) > Jul 27 14:59:28 dell kernel: ata8.00: reset failed, giving up > Jul 27 14:59:28 dell kernel: ata8.15: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:38 dell kernel: ata8.15: softreset failed (timeout) > Jul 27 14:59:38 dell kernel: ata8.15: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:40 dell kernel: ata8.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 > SControl 0) > Jul 27 14:59:40 dell kernel: ata8.00: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:50 dell kernel: ata8.00: softreset failed (timeout) > Jul 27 14:59:50 dell kernel: ata8.00: hard resetting link > Jul 27 14:59:51 dell kernel: ata8.00: COMRESET failed (errno=-5) > Jul 27 14:59:51 dell kernel: ata8.00: reset failed, giving up > Jul 27 14:59:51 dell kernel: ata8.15: hard resetting link > Jul 27 15:00:01 dell kernel: ata8.15: softreset failed (timeout) > Jul 27 15:00:01 dell kernel: ata8.15: hard resetting link > Jul 27 15:00:03 dell kernel: ata8.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 > SControl 0) > Jul 27 15:00:03 dell kernel: ata8.00: hard resetting link > Jul 27 15:00:13 dell kernel: ata8.00: softreset failed (timeout) > Jul 27 15:00:13 dell kernel: ata8.00: hard resetting link > Jul 27 15:00:14 dell kernel: ata8.00: COMRESET failed (errno=-5) > Jul 27 15:00:14 dell kernel: ata8.00: reset failed, giving up > Jul 27 15:00:14 dell kernel: ata8.00: failed to recover link after 3 > tries, disabling > Jul 27 15:00:14 dell kernel: ata8.00: disabled And then never comes back. Please post the result of 'smartctl -a /dev/sdX' where sdX is the device which went offline. -- 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