Chuck Ebbert wrote: > If I use an ext3 filesystem with noatime I never see problems, but if I use XFS > with barriers and atime enabled, I keep getting this: > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > ata1: hard resetting link > ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 13851948 ext3 doesn't use barrier by default. Timing out on FLUSH_CACHE is a pretty good sign that something is wrong with the disk. Can you please post the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sda"? -- 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