Hello, Matthew. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:24:18PM -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Ok, I've had one person testing this report the following: > > [ 1896.902726] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x800 SErr 0x40000 action 0x0 > [ 1896.902735] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 > [ 1896.902741] ata1: SError: { CommWake } > [ 1896.902748] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED > [ 1896.902758] ata1.00: cmd 61/18:58:88:d5:5d/00:00:0d:00:00/40 tag 11 > ncq 12288 out > res 41/04:00:9f:d5:5d/00:00:0d:00:00/40 Emask 0x401 (device error) <F> > [ 1896.902764] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > [ 1896.902768] ata1.00: error: { ABRT } > [ 1896.912725] ata1.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible > [ 1896.932716] ata1.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible > [ 1896.942783] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > [ 1896.942815] ata1: EH complete > > which seems to occur in batches. I'm a little confused - isn't it > legitimate for the phy to report comwake here? CommWake isn't the problem here. SError is being dumped just for information. The disk is reporting failure on a write command which is diagnosed as "device error" and thus the link is not reset. It's really the device actively reporting command failure. Thanks. -- 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