Axel Uhl writes:
> I now enabled IO/APIC in my kernel. See attached .config. I also enabled
> pata_via but was unsure which IDE driver to disable.
That would be VIA82CXXX. But all your PATA/SATA controllers are now driven
by libata, so you can disable IDE, i.e. set CONFIG_IDE=n.
> The kernel
> rebooted fine. The following appeared in my syslog when the smartctl
> command spinned up the disk:
>
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
> SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5.00: failed command: SMART
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5.00: cmd
> b0/da:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: res
> 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5: soft resetting link
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
> Feb 19 18:57:09 homemp3 kernel: ata5: EH complete
>
>
> At least it seems that the kernel recovered better from this exception
> than before. In particular, IRQ10 didn't get disabled and so I/O
> continued to work fine. Thanks for the hint.
>
> Would you consider the exception above a serious problem that should be
> taken care of somehow?
Apparently this disk likes to complain when issued a SMART command while spun
down, but as libata EH recovers nicely there's no real reason to worry.
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