On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:00:00AM -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:46 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > > I'm getting these on my Dell Latitude D830: > > > > Feb 15 13:06:00 willow kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x4 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > Feb 15 13:06:00 willow kernel: ata1.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x4 FIS=004040a1:00000002 > > > In some cases, there are several cmd/res lines listed. It's > > happening about once an hour or so (not correlated with any other > > event that I can see). It doesn't seem to be affecting operation of > > the machine, but it's making me nervous. > > > > Can anyone set my mind at rest? (Or suggest a fix?) > > You didn't mention which SATA chipset your laptop has, but some quick > googling says that it's AHCI. Until 2.6.24, the AHCI driver has a > problem where it'll report superious NCQ completions due to a bug in the > driver logic. > > > uname -a reports: > > Linux willow 2.6.23.1-hrt3 #1 SMP Sun Nov 4 14:51:20 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > The fix is simple, upgrade your kernel to 2.6.24 :) Excellent. Thank you for clearing this up for me. I'll head off and do the upgrade now. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- All mushrooms are edible, but some are only edible once. ---
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