Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 / SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

[Bill Davidsen]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   
> > Gwendal Grignou wrote:
> >     
> > > About ata1:0 problem, as reported in the bugzilla bug: I would try to
> > > disable NCQ to see if it helps. Your disks firmware might not fully
> > > support it.
> > >
> > > You can either add the parameter "libata.force=noncq" when loading
> > > your kernel, or set queue_depth to 1 for all the Seagate drives behind
> > > the Marvell MV88SX6081 controller.
> > >
> > > About ata5:0 , someone - in user space probably - is trying to do a
> > > SMART ENABLE operation, but the device ignores it. I don't know which
> > > device you are using, but I assume it does not support ATA SMART
> > > feature set. Timeout is an acceptable but not a nice way to answer, a
> > > cancel would have been better; check if there is a firmware upgrade
> > > for your device.
> > >   
> > >       
> > You certainly called the SMART issue, I was wondering why a new
> > distribution install on some older hardware was getting all the errors,
> > clearly the Fedora "smartd" doesn't check SMART capability before trying
> > to enable the feature. Oddly the drive on which I see this does reply to
> > SMART requests, so the firmware must be "semi-functional." Not a
> > problem, in my case the drive is just used for testing handling of hot
> > swap, and has no data of any value.
> >     
>
> Can you post full kernel log including the boot messages and the error
> messages?  Also, please attach the output of hdparm -I on the drive
> which fails the smart command.
>   

Belatedly, the drive was retired after I got thinking about it, I'm just 
calling it an old bad drive and leaving it at that. I'm not goinf to 
re-install a dubious 20GB drive, it's out of the hot-swap carrier, 
cleared with dban, and in the recycle bin. You seem to have far better 
examples of the issue, so I don't feel I would hold up progress. :-)
> (cc'ing Bruce, hi!) Bruce, this is the second report I see about drive
> timing out SMART ENABLE OPERATIONS.  Does anything ring a bell?
>
> Thanks.
>
>   


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