Matías Alejandro Torres wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a SATA drive in a motherboard with an ATI SB600 chipset that > until now worked just fine. > The disk seems fine but after a while it start making noises (like > spinning up) and the computer freezes during 2 or 3 seconds. I think my > SATA drive is broken, or maybe the motherboard. This is what dmesg says: > > [ 229.096000] ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90200 action 0x6 frozen See http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=119707355016060&w=2 ... > I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 with kernel 2.6.22-14-generic in a dual processor > computer. Below there's some hardware information. The output of dmesg > is attached. Thanks! That patch will not apply cleanly to 2.6.22 - it will show rejects in libata-core.c. Those are OK - it's a cleanup of wrongly blacklisted drives. The main part - in ahci.c - is the one that's needed. > [ 229.096000] ata4: (irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed) > [ 229.096000] ata4: hard resetting port > [ 233.400000] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) By the way, which drive it is? If it's Seagate, pull out its only jumper (factory preset) which limits it to SATAI. /mjt - 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
