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i92guboj
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 Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject: ata3: soft resetting port - (Open) |
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Since like 3 or 4 hours ago my system is loging this:
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Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ata3: soft resetting port
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ata3.00: Host Protected Area detected:
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ^Icurrent size: 312579695 sectors
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ^Inative size: 312581808 sectors
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ata3.00: Host Protected Area detected:
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ^Icurrent size: 312579695 sectors
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ^Inative size: 312581808 sectors
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: ata3: EH complete
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 312579695 512-byte hardware sectors (160041 MB)
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct 15 13:58:42 jesgue kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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When it happens, there is like a freeze in which regards some i/o operations. The hard driver makes a bit of noise, but nothing like any other breakage I have seen in any other case (and I have seen a lot of hd's breaking). Temperature is 50ºC, and the drive is a regular ATA Seagate one (ST3160021A). The freeze lasts like 30 seconds or so, during this time I can, for example, move windows with no problems. The only redraw issue is that programs that are -presumably- waiting for some disk i/o don't redraw themselves. The rest seems to work just fine.
One of these freezes has been longer than the rest, and after one minute or so, the leds on my keyboard blinked and the system rebooted hard. On the next boot, fsck was ran automatically due to that, and it didn't report any strange thing, other than the tipical stuff that happens when your computer is shut off the hard way 
That message has come again after the reboot, though for now it only appeared once after that.
The basic smartctl stuff doesn't report anything unusual either. So I am not sure if the drive is dying. From my experience, though I never saw the same exact error, I would say it is dying indeed. But I wanted to ask if someone ever saw similar errors.
I recently migrated to the pata stuff in my kernel, and I no longer have the ide drivers available on it. But I feel this is a hardware issue. |
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likewhoa
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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did you scan the drive for badblocks? | Code: | | badblocks -svn /dev/<DRIVE> |
I would also switch schedulers, try using deadline or CFS2.0 is on 2.6.23 as that seems to be working well. |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| likewhoa wrote: | did you scan the drive for badblocks? | Code: | | badblocks -svn /dev/<DRIVE> |
I would also switch schedulers, try using deadline or CFS2.0 is on 2.6.23 as that seems to be working well. |
I will try badblocks, that was already in my TODO list, but I preffer to do that with my disks unmounted, so that will be tonight.
I don't know what the schedulers could do here, CFQ always worked ok. |
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