>From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on starting the computer..
I typed dmesg and found these messages [ 304.694936] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 304.694939] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [ 304.694954] ata4: soft resetting link [ 304.938280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 304.938293] ata4: EH complete [ 304.970866] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 304.970873] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26 [ 304.970884] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:38:f6:2a:94/00:00:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 28672 in [ 304.970887] res 51/84:18:16:2b:94/84:00:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30 (host bus error) [ 304.970891] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 304.970895] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [ 304.970909] ata4: soft resetting link [ 305.218280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 305.218296] ata4: EH complete [ 305.880378] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 305.880385] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26 [ 305.880397] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:80:fe:22:8e/00:01:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 196608 in [ 305.880399] res 51/84:60:1e:23:8e/84:01:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30 (host bus error) [ 305.880404] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 305.880408] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [ 305.880423] ata4: soft resetting link [ 306.126281] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 306.126297] ata4: EH complete What do these messages mean? What is the solution to prevent these messages from appearing? Help! -- Harshad Joshi