Hi, Just FYI I've tried to enable ADMA again (now running 2.6.24-rc6) but the bug is still present: Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400 next cpb count 0x0 next cpb idx 0x0 Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x9, resp_flags 0x0 Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400 Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400 Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 1 16:11:21 host kernel: ata7: soft resetting link Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: ata7.00: configured for UDMA/133 Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: ata7: EH complete Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Jan 1 16:11:22 host kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Although this time the above happened more than 3 hours after boot which is much better than 2.6.22 was. In the past ~4 months ADMA was disabled and I never had any libata-related error messages. SMART does not show anything interesting: smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint P120 series Device Model: SAMSUNG SP2504C Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Firmware Version: VT100-33 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Local Time is: Tue Jan 1 17:38:21 2008 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (4867) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 81) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 025 Pre-fail Always - 6144 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1218 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 253 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 253 253 015 Pre-fail Offline - 11363 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3325 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 253 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 253 002 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 985 190 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 160 124 000 Old_age Always - 26 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 160 124 000 Old_age Always - 26 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4346055 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3315 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3298 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3268 - # 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3262 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3243 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3236 - # 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3228 - # 8 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3218 - # 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3186 - #10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3178 - #11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3175 - #12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3165 - #13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3155 - #14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3146 - #15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3139 - #16 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3135 - #17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3125 - #18 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3082 - #19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3068 - #20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3066 - #21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3052 - SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0 Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data structure revision number = 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - 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