Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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 ? Please post the result of 'hdparm -I /dev/sda' and you don't need to worry about it too much. -- 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