Re: 2.6.20 SATA error

From: Gerhard Mack
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 10:03:14 EST


On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> > [...]
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
> > [...]
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/44
> > [...]
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
> > [...]
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/25
> > [...]
> > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/16
> > [...]
> > ata1.00: configured for PIO4
>
> I have the same problem, though it appears randomly. It seems like the chances
> for this happening are bigger if I do heavy disk I/O. The only way to fix that
> is to shut down the computer and wait a few seconds before rebooting (if I
> don't wait, the problem doesn't go away). I bought new harddrives, so it's
> most likely not caused by the drives, I also tried putting the drives onto a
> different controller (I have four on-board SATA controller and two
> harddrives), that didn't help either, so I suspect its the cable - SATA cables
> are very error-prone, I don't trust them as they don't hold that tightly in

Well that's the strange thing.. I've done heavy I/O on this with no
trouble. This happened overnight when my system should have been mostly
idle

Gerhard

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