hello, not sure if this is best place to seek help but i couldn't seem to find any more appropriate mailing lists... i've been having HDD issues lately, and the issues have persisted across two different disks and two different SATA ports on the motherboard system is running Ubuntu 10.04 Linux 2.6.32-47-generic #109-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 7 02:02:22 UTC 2013 at first, i was getting messages related to a Western Digital 300 GB drive that houses /boot and root file systems. unfortunately i lost my dmesg from that time but i remember receiving a lot of "SError: { HostInt <one other SError too> }" errors. also things like "hard resetting link", "softreset failed (device not ready)", "applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying", "SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)" were prominent in dmesg. i noticed the SATA link would be dropped to 1.5 Gbps too. eventually the system became unusable and unbootable, as well as filesystem corrupted. fsck fixed it and system was up and running again. smartctl for the drive showed good health (i believe)[1] so i moved the drive to another port on the motherboard (currently ata3.00 to libata). so far libata has not produced any errors related to the drive but i just heard a knocking sound and this logged in dmesg[2]. ata4 has another disk drive, another port, and also different error messages. smtartctl for this drive also shows good health[3]. so since i have been having issues with two disks and two ports i am thinking it is something further up the cable? like power or SATA cable issue, power supply issue, or motherboard issue... what say you? thanks 1. http://pastebin.com/wfZ5q5TL 2. http://pastebin.com/wrtTHWYB 3. http://pastebin.com/2TGjGhQd -- 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