Hello, sometimes kernel complains about spurious completions on my new notebook: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x407fd SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata3.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x407fd FIS=005040a1:00020000 ata3.00: cmd 61/08:00:c7:5a:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/08:10:3f:5b:fa/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/08:18:5f:5b:fa/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 3 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/18:20:6f:5b:fa/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 4 cdb 0x0 data 12288 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/08:28:e7:19:fd/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 5 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/08:30:df:59:ae/00:00:1a:00:00/40 tag 6 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/08:38:3f:5a:ae/00:00:1a:00:00/40 tag 7 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/08:40:6f:62:ae/00:00:1a:00:00/40 tag 8 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/28:48:d7:59:7e/00:00:1b:00:00/40 tag 9 cdb 0x0 data 20480 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/10:50:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 tag 10 cdb 0x0 data 8192 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3.00: cmd 61/30:90:f7:5a:fa/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 18 cdb 0x0 data 24576 out res 50/00:10:07:5b:82/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) ata3: soft resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata3: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA (this is a very recent 2.6.23-git, SMP, x86_64) The disk is: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 Firmware Revision: BBFOC31P The controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 14e7 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 1272 Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at e880 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at e800 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at e480 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at e400 [size=32] Region 5: Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/2 Enable+ Address: fee0300c Data: 41b9 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] and I'm using AHCI driver. I see that similar disks are already blacklisted, probably this one is bugged too - though the error is pretty rare :( Luca -- "Di tutte le perversioni sessuali, la castita` e` la piu` strana". Anatole France - 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