Hello, Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: > Sep 28 04:32:40 locker ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 > action 0x2 frozen > Sep 28 04:32:40 locker ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 > tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in > Sep 28 04:32:40 locker res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask > 0x202 (HSM violation) [--snip--] > Another machine: > > Sep 28 03:47:55 dragonslair ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr > 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Sep 28 03:47:55 dragonslair ata1.00: cmd > b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in > > Sep 28 03:47:55 dragonslair res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 > Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) [--snip--] > Sep 28 04:33:52 liferaft kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 > SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Sep 28 04:33:55 liferaft kernel: ata1.00: cmd > b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in > Sep 28 04:33:55 liferaft kernel: res > 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) > Sep 28 04:33:55 liferaft kernel: ata1: soft resetting port > Sep 28 04:33:55 liferaft kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus > 123 SControl 300) > Sep 28 04:33:55 liferaft kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > Sep 28 04:33:55 liferaft kernel: ata1: EH complete All these are caused by smartd. Updating should fix the problem. > Note 2: The hardware didn't freeze for me and I believe the freeze is do > to swap breaking due to the errors. Above HSM violations should be harmless other than those messages. libata resets the devices and should just go on. > Note 3: dragonslair's harddisk actually crashed, kernel didn't die, it > just remounted read only. Reboot and the disk was missing, more reboot > and the machine started with all disks running again, been stable since > the 28th Sep. (knock on wood) libata EH can't really recover from actual hardware failures but some drives come back on if you hot unplug and then replug it. -- 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