Re: ATA device reset, shoud I be concerned?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 06:38:57 EST


> > [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
> > frozen
> > [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:90:ca:ce/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0
> > data 4096 in
> > [ 9031.028000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4
> > (timeout)

We got bored of waiting for the drive to respond to our request. I still
think we have the timeouts too short or are accounting queue time
somewhere we shouldn't as there a few other examples where we don't allow
long enough for a drive to retry out and fail with a media error on a bad
sector.

Alan
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