Rusty Conover wrote: > Hello Tejun, > > Thanks for your reply. > > >> * Please post kernel log including boot messages and errors. >> > > I've included the full log at the bottom of this message. > >> * Please post the result of 'hdparm -I /dev/sdX' where sdX is the >> offending device. >> >> * Are the errors localized to ata3.04 or are other drives affected too? >> > > > Its interesting because its not consistent, I've seen exceptions in this > recent log with: > > ata5.00 - ATA bus error > ata5.03 - media error (hdparm below for sdg), timeout > ata5.04 - timeout > ata3.00 - timeout Aieeee.... Definitely looks like some sort of hardware problem to me. Please re-seat and re-cable stuff and remove drives from the machine other than the one necessary to boot. Please test things while adding disk-by-disk. Thanks. -- 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