Hello, Bruno Prémont wrote: > I don't have other drives of the same model, but 3 ones slightly smaller > in size and previous generation, those are just a few months older (but > also have way more uptime), see below for the smartctl output. I've never > seen ATA errors on them. > These other drives are running on AMD based platform, SB600 SATA with AHCI. So, smartctl output seems fine. > Just for the record, on the VIA there were no errors yet with > 2.6.27-rc6-git3 though I ran some compiling on it. As such it *could* be > that one of the patches pushed by Jeff helped: > [libata] LBA28/LBA48 off-by-one bug in ata.h > sata_inic162x: enable LED blinking > ata: duplicate variable sparse warning The only patch which could have affected the result is the off-by-one one; however, FLUSH timeout is a bit unexpected failure mode for the problem. Can you please keep the system running for a whlie and see whether the problem occurs? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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