A broken cable seems like a realistic possibility, so i swapped it for
another cable. I will try if that solves the problem.
Maarten.
On 8/25/07, Robert Hancock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > I have this problem several times, always with the same harddrive, a
> > samsung sp2004c. My samsung hd161hj and hd321kj don't seem to suffer
> > from this problem. I do not know when exactly it happened for the
> > first, but it has happened twice on a 2.6.22 kernel.
> >
> > Is there anything that can be done about this (besides disabling adma
> > for all drives), or any information i can provide to help?
> >
> > Please CC me, as i am not a member of this mailinglist.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Maarten Maathuis.
> >
> > dmesg snippet:
> >
> > ata4: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440
> > ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x2f)
> > ata4: failed to read log page 10h (errno=-5)
> > ata4.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x380000 action 0x2 frozen
> > ata4.00: (CPB resp_flags 0x11: CMD error)
> > ata4.00: cmd 60/80:00:89:b0:30/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 65536 in
> > res 51/84:00:02:00:00/84:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
>
> Sounds like the drive has gotten into a really hosed state after this
> point. The SError register is showing a CRC error, disparity error, and
> 10b to 8b decode error, which indicates that there are some major SATA
> communication problems happening.
>
> It could be a hardware problem (bad drive, bad SATA cable, insufficient
> power, etc.) or maybe this is another drive with broken NCQ..
>
> --
> Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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>
>
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