On Saturday 09 May 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For hardware details, see > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages thanks for the link > > The ATA bus is the cable connection, so an ATA bus error typically means > > - problem with your cable, or > - your motherboard's SATA port, or > - your drive's SATA port, or > - "dirty power" supply, or > - some other cause for cable interference > Ok I changed M/B, PSU and cables. Now the stress test passes only one SATA reset instead of 3 or 4 before the fatal one. [ 1804.915319] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10000 action 0xe frozen [ 1804.915319] ata1.01: ST-ATA: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat 0x0 [ 1804.915319] ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg } [ 1804.915319] ata1.01: cmd b0/d5:01:09:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/10 tag 0 pio 512 in [ 1804.915319] res 00/00:01:09:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/10 Emask 0x212 (ATA bus error) [ 1804.915319] ata1: hard resetting link [ 1810.279540] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1810.305230] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1810.314698] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1810.314698] ata1: EH complete [ 1810.318713] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) [ 1810.318713] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 1810.318713] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 1810.318713] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 1810.322654] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) [ 1810.326655] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 1810.326655] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 1810.326655] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 1810.330758] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) [ 1810.330758] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 1810.330758] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 1810.330758] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 1810.334656] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB) [ 1810.334656] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 1810.334656] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 1810.334656] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Regards .bill -- 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