Saw that popping up in my log today on a brand new T61 thinkpad: [ 427.712000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x18 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 427.712000] ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x18 FIS=004040a1:00000024) [ 427.712000] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:18:f4:74:54/00:00:04:00:00/40 tag 3 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out [ 427.712000] res 40/00:28:64:e4:51/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) [ 427.712000] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:20:84:10:81/00:00:04:00:00/40 tag 4 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out [ 427.712000] res 40/00:28:64:e4:51/00:00:04:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) [ 428.024000] ata1: soft resetting port [ 428.196000] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 428.204000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 428.204000] ata1: EH complete [ 428.204000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB) [ 428.204000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 428.204000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 428.204000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Kernel recovered just fine and things seem smooth so far. Is that something I need to worry about ? Kernel is ubuntu gutsy's 2.6.22 and controller is: Cheers,00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 20a7 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 218 Region 0: I/O ports at 1c50 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at 1c44 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at 1c48 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 1c40 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at 1c20 [size=32] Region 5: Memory at fe226000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/2 Enable+ Address: fee0300c Data: 4152 Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a8] #12 [0010] Cheers, Ben. - 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