Hugo Mills wrote: > 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. JFYI: Most probably it is correlated with smartd asking the device for it's SMART status. /mjt - 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