Norbert Preining wrote:
Dear all!
(please Cc me for answers)
Since about 5 days I am having serious problems with my SATA drive:
kernel 2.6.22 (from Debian/sid)
hardware nv
Sometimes at boot time, often/always at disk io intense stuff:
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400000 action 0x2
Serror 0x400000 means a handshake error. Usually Serror indications are
due to a hardware problem (bad SATA cable, power or drive problem).
ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x25)
ata1.00: cmd 35/00:00:2a:6f:c0/00:04:0c:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 out
res 51/84:10:1a:72:c0/84:01:0c:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata1: EH complete
Even worse, sometimes the reset does not work ...
ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata1: hard resetting port
ata1 SRST failed (errno=-19)
ata1: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 10 secs
..
(typed from a digital photo, nothing remains in the logs)
After this I need to do a cold boot otherwise the drive is really in a
bad state and not even the bios gets it right.
If even the BIOS cannot reset properly then that also really points to a
hardware problem..
Interestingly the whole stuff DID work for a long time until I did too
many things at the same time: 2 x svn up, copying 40G from the SATA
drive to an USB drive, aptitude upgrade. Before I did regularly the same
stuff (like svn up etc), but this time it was too much, it seems.
Apropos data hosing: After the first incident some data on my windows
partitions (/dev/sda1) was hosed, programs missing, chkdisk necessary
etc.
I attach dmesg (from the current boot with a succeeding soft reset, I
interrupted the svn process before the SATA drives goes into hard reset
failures), .config, lspci -v output.
Are there any chances that using 2.6.23 will improve/fix this? Any other
suggestions?
I would consider it an hardware problem, but since it started at one big
io thingy and is persistent since then I am a bit sceptic.
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