It appears that the problem was caused by a faulty power supply. Thanks anyway! On Tuesday 15 January 2008 11:54:35 Andrew Morton wrote: > 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-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - 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
