> > [ 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) We got bored of waiting for the drive to respond to our request. I still think we have the timeouts too short or are accounting queue time somewhere we shouldn't as there a few other examples where we don't allow long enough for a drive to retry out and fail with a media error on a bad sector. Alan - 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