Hi, I'm looking ta a Dell SC440 system for a friend, and it's giving HSM violations at startup. The system itself has an ICH7 chipset, with two seagate ST3160812AS drives attached along with a single ST3400832AS, running kernel 2.6.22 and the ata_piix driver. I'm guessing this isn't good :( Anybody gt any suggestions? The violations are : ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete Cheers, Eamonn -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. - 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