On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:17:29 +0530, surreal wrote:
> 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
(...)
What do you have attached to that port (ata 4)?
> What do these messages mean? What is the solution to prevent these
> messages from appearing? Help!
It can be a bad cable -or bad connection- or even a kernel issue. I mean,
it does not have to be a hard disk failure "per se". Anyway, running a
smartctl long test will neither hurt.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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