Hi, i'm getting this error in dmesg from time to time, i'm sending it here because i don't know any better list for doing so. Please let me know if i can run any test (or provide additional infomation) to help fixing this! Thanks. ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x33 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x33 FIS=004040a1:00000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:78:89:b7/00:00:0f:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:24:5f:d4:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata1.00: cmd 60/08:08:6f:d2:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:24:5f:d4:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata1.00: cmd 60/08:20:5f:d4:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 4 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:24:5f:d4:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata1.00: cmd 60/08:28:5f:d2:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 5 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:24:5f:d4:8b/00:00:0a:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 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 -- Ciao Maurizio http://stregatto.wordpress.com "Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun" (John Lennon) - 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