I'm running a debian 2.6.26-9 kernel (sid) on a new laptop with: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Dell Device 0275 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 378 Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at 18d4 [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at 18d8 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 18d0 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32] Region 5: Memory at f8504000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/2 Enable+ Address: fee0300c Data: 41a1 Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA <?> Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci Soon after booting, and possibly after the disk had spun down and was asked to spin back up (which it had done successfully a few times so far, with a spinddown timeout of 10 minutes, and using laptop_mode), it had a sata error: Nov 4 01:49:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106289] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x3ff SErr 0x50000 action 0xe frozen Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106307] ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake } Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106319] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:00:bd:c9:57/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106322] res 40/00:00:02:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error) Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106329] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106339] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:08:35:7a:73/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 out Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106343] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error) Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106350] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106361] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:10:35:36:9b/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 4096 out Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106364] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error) Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106371] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Nov 4 01:50:29 gamow kernel: [ 1865.106382] ata1.00: cmd 61/28:18:55:94:e2/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 20480 out And then it fails to reset after some time, remounting the devices readonly (although what wasn't already in the cache became unreadable with lots of IO errors rapidly filling up dmesg). None of the logs made it to disk, naturally enough, and this was what I caught in syslog before syslog bailed. There were interesting messages that happened after this, but the dmesg buffer filled up before I thought about saving them. My /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy is: min_power . powertop had earlier (in a previous warm-boot) prompted me to set link_power_management_policy, so I had been tweaking that, but I didn't look at its default setting - I presume it was already at min_power, as it is now from a fresh (cold) bootup. Just in case it is related, in each bootup, I earlier get Nov 4 01:20:26 gamow kernel: [ 116.217492] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec Nov 4 01:20:28 gamow kernel: [ 118.073078] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec Nov 4 01:20:30 gamow kernel: [ 120.467250] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. Nov 4 01:20:30 gamow kernel: [ 120.603593] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec Nov 4 01:20:31 gamow kernel: [ 121.004372] ACPI Exception (evregion-0420): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20080321] Nov 4 01:20:31 gamow kernel: [ 121.004372] ACPI Error (psparse-0530): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node ffff81013fa6cb90), AE_TIME Nov 4 01:20:31 gamow kernel: [ 121.004372] ACPI Exception (battery-0360): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST [20080321] and/or [ 1587.842640] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec (successively increasing as time goes on) The sata link went belly up perhaps a few minutes after I went to bed lastnight, and the only thing I can think of that I did before then was to unplug and replug the ethernet and/or the wireless. The ACPI messages seem to happen around networking events on this laptop, but I haven't had a chance to investigate further. -- TimC You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. -- 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