Greetings ... I would agree, replace cables first, then power supply, which most people over look and then SATA adapter ... Currently having a similar problem, but I think my drives are going faulty, slowly ... Best of luck! Thanks Mailed LeeT 2009/10/9 Majed B. <majedb@xxxxxxxxx>: > Change the SATA cable. >>> I have 2 disks + 1 spare (3 total) in a raid-1 configuration, over the >>> past >>> 3-4 weeks after 1-2 year of raid-1 (md), this is the second time this has >>> happened: >>> >>> [1538654.702201] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 >>> frozen >>> [1538654.702209] ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 >>> [1538654.702210] res 40/00:00:3c:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask >>> 0x4 (timeout) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html