Kernel: 2.6.23-rc2 witch patches [1], but older and stable versions also affected. [1] http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0708.0/2655.html +ipw3945 and truecrypt. Sometimes (one in ten, or rarely) I have this error while system resume from suspend to disk: ================= swsusp: Marking nosave pages: 000000000009f000 - 0000000000100000 swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps created Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done. Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done. Loading image data pages (117687 pages) ... 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17% 18% 19% 20%<3>ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:10:0b:f3/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in res 51/40:a4:6c:0b:f3/00:03:05:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:10:0b:f3/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in res 51/40:a4:6c:0b:f3/00:03:05:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:10:0b:f3/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in res 51/40:a4:6c:0b:f3/00:03:05:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:10:0b:f3/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in res 51/40:a4:6c:0b:f3/00:03:05:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:10:0b:f3/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in res 51/40:a4:6c:0b:f3/00:03:05:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:10:0b:f3/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in res 51/40:a4:6c:0b:f3/00:03:05:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 05 f3 0b 6c sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 99814252 Read-error on swap-device (8:0:99814256) Read-error on swap-device (8:0:99814264) Read-error on swap-device (8:0:99814272) ... Read-error on swap-device (8:0:99815184) ata1: EH complete sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Read 470748 kbytes in 30.97 seconds (15.20 MB/s) PM: Restore failed, recovering. Restarting tasks ... done. swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps freed ================= Then system continue booting without resume. I use smartctl and check disk 2 times and run fsck/mkswap -c and I have no erros: ================= rutek:/home/maciek/kernel.org/libata_error# smartctl -A /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 046 Pre-fail Always - 28879 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 030 Pre-fail Offline - 20381999 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 025 Pre-fail Always - 1 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1599 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 8589934592000 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 047 Pre-fail Always - 3713 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 019 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Seconds 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 0h+41m+39s 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1354 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 65 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2776 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/46) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 344 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 444268544 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 22830 203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2632796799455 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 ================= Dmesg and config: http://www.unixy.pl/maciek/download/kernel/libata_error/ Regards -- Maciej Rutecki http://www.maciek.unixy.pl - 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