Hello! I have a 4xSATA PCI-E card (SYBA brand, Marvell chipset) which behaves bad on some circumstances that aren't clear to me, so I call that behavior random. My mobo is a Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H/GA-A75-UD4H. The problem consists in the quoted errors/debug info. I can't write DVD and sometimes reading/writing to hard disks is slow. I've disabled the Native Command Queue via kernel parameters (libata.force=noncq); also I've lowered the speed of all ATA controllers to 1,5Gbps. There is no difference. The issue persists. --- lspci -v: 01:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9215 (rev 11) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9215 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 38 I/O ports at bf00 [size=8] I/O ports at be00 [size=4] I/O ports at bd00 [size=8] I/O ports at bc00 [size=4] I/O ports at bb00 [size=32] Memory at fdbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fdb00000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [e0] SATA HBA v0.0 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci --- I don't have more options to test. Do you have one? If I can help improving something I'll do whatever steps necessary to provide debug information to the kernel developers regarding this problem. Kind regards Emilio. --- dmesg info [434967.722795] ata9: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050000 action 0xe frozen [434967.722807] ata9: irq_stat 0x80400040, connection status changed [434967.722815] ata9: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch } [434967.722827] ata9: hard resetting link [434969.192373] ata9: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [434969.193014] ata9.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq) [434969.215990] ata9.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200AAJS-22RYA0, 12.01B01, max UDMA/133 [434969.215997] ata9.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) [434969.216882] ata9.00: configured for UDMA/133 [434969.216903] ata9: EH complete [434970.126924] ata9: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x190002 action 0xe frozen [434970.126934] ata9: irq_stat 0x80400000, PHY RDY changed [434970.126940] ata9: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar } [434970.126949] ata9: hard resetting link [434970.836345] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [434970.916242] ata9: hard resetting link [434974.892261] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [434974.892269] ata9.00: link offline, clearing class 1 to NONE [434974.892277] ata9: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [434975.320012] ata9: hard resetting link [434977.432186] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [434977.432194] ata9.00: link offline, clearing class 1 to NONE [434977.432201] ata9.00: disabled [434977.432226] ata9: EH complete [434977.432327] ata9.00: detaching (SCSI 8:0:0:0) [434977.898235] ata9: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen [434977.898248] ata9: irq_stat 0x80000040, connection status changed [434977.898255] ata9: SError: { DevExch } [434977.898267] ata9: hard resetting link [434983.748063] ata9: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [434983.748703] ata9.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq) [434983.771571] ata9.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200AAJS-22RYA0, 12.01B01, max UDMA/133 [434983.771579] ata9.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) [434983.772480] ata9.00: configured for UDMA/133 [434983.772501] ata9: EH complete [435061.615367] ata9: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x190002 action 0xe frozen [435061.615378] ata9: irq_stat 0x80400000, PHY RDY changed [435061.615386] ata9: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar } [435061.615396] ata9: hard resetting link [435062.326353] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [435067.386234] ata9: hard resetting link [435067.702284] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [435067.702297] ata9: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [435072.762107] ata9: hard resetting link [435073.078040] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [435073.078052] ata9.00: disabled [435073.078078] ata9: EH complete [435073.078105] ata9.00: detaching (SCSI 8:0:0:0) [435101.716072] ata8: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050000 action 0xe frozen [435101.716084] ata8: irq_stat 0x80400040, connection status changed [435101.716091] ata8: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch } [435101.716104] ata8: hard resetting link [435102.585464] ata8: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [435102.586086] ata8.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq) [435102.607691] ata8.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200AAJS-22RYA0, 12.01B01, max UDMA/133 [435102.607699] ata8.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) [435102.608621] ata8.00: configured for UDMA/133 [435102.608642] ata8: EH complete [435205.123301] ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [435205.123328] ata7.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:02:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 24 pio 16388 in [435205.123335] ata7.00: status: { DRDY } [435205.123342] ata7: hard resetting link [435205.599244] ata7: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [435205.605549] ata7.00: configured for UDMA/100 [435205.607873] ata7: EH complete [435471.690523] ata8: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x190002 action 0xe frozen [435471.690534] ata8: irq_stat 0x80400000, PHY RDY changed [435471.690542] ata8: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar } [435471.690552] ata8: hard resetting link [435472.401447] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [435477.489306] ata8: hard resetting link [435477.805479] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [435477.805492] ata8: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [435482.865194] ata8: hard resetting link [435483.181208] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [435483.181216] ata8.00: disabled [435483.181240] ata8: EH complete [435483.181310] ata8.00: detaching (SCSI 7:0:0:0) [435484.957529] ata9: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen [435484.957541] ata9: irq_stat 0x80000040, connection status changed [435484.957548] ata9: SError: { CommWake DevExch } [435484.957560] ata9: hard resetting link [435485.829144] ata9: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [435485.829757] ata9.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq) [435485.852091] ata9.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200AAJS-22RYA0, 12.01B01, max UDMA/133 [435485.852097] ata9.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) [435485.852972] ata9.00: configured for UDMA/133 [435485.853104] ata9: EH complete [435491.987610] ata9: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x190002 action 0xe frozen [435491.987622] ata9: irq_stat 0x80400000, PHY RDY changed [435491.987629] ata9: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg 10B8B Dispar } [435491.987639] ata9: hard resetting link [435492.696998] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [435497.712883] ata9: hard resetting link [435498.028521] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [435498.028534] ata9: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [435503.088781] ata9: hard resetting link [435503.404705] ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [435503.404717] ata9.00: disabled [435503.404744] ata9: EH complete [435503.404862] ata9.00: detaching (SCSI 8:0:0:0) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at 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