On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:19:20 +0200 Georgi Chulkov <g.chulkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > During heavy disk load on my laptop, sometimes the IDE disk will pause for a > second and then continue. I get this in my kernel log: > > [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 > frozen > [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:90:ca:ce/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 > data 4096 in > [ 9031.028000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 > (timeout) > [ 9036.068000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) > [ 9041.052000] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset > [ 9041.052000] ata1: soft resetting port > [ 9041.232000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > [ 9041.232000] ata1: EH complete > [ 9041.248000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB) > [ 9041.248000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > [ 9041.248000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > [ 9041.248000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, > doesn't support DPO or FUA > > My question: What is this telling me, and do I need to be concerned? > Everything continues to work normally after the message: no I/O errors, no > fsck errors, etc. > > I've seen some similar reports on the mailing list, but they include slightly > different messages. I would appreciate any information! > > uname -a (on Kubuntu Gutsy, CPU is a single-core 32-bit Pentium M): > > Linux superfly 2.6.22-14-386 #1 Tue Dec 18 07:34:24 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > Has it done this in all kernel versions or did some earler version work OK? - 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
