> The disk is a Western Digital-1TB (new disk).
> The controller is a Promise SATA 300TX4 (4-port Serial 3G with
> NCQ/TCQ Support).
Your drive appears to fall off the bus.
> 13 10:12:20 kern: res ff/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff/ff Emask 0x12
> (ATA bus error)
Splat
> 13 10:12:20 kern: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x19 0002
> action 0xa frozen
> 13 10:12:20 kern: ata4.00: hotplug_status 0x4
> 13 10:12:20 kern: ata4: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar }
SATA link dies
> 13 10:13:25 kern: ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
We try 1.5GBit
> 13 10:14:30 kern: ata4: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar DevExch }
> 13 10:14:37 kern: ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient
> (Status 0xff)
First guess would be a dud drive but it could be power or cabling or
firmware or ...
In all the sane cases I would have expected it to recover, particularly
if it was cabling.
Alan
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