-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > T'm occasionally getting this message in syslog on my jessie box: > > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600489] ata3.00: exception > Emask 0x10 SAct 0x10 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600501] ata3.00: irq_stat > 0x08000000, interface fatal error > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600509] ata3: SError: { Handshk } > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600517] ata3.00: failed > command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600531] ata3.00: cmd > 61/c0:20:90:6e:eb/01:00:22:00:00/40 tag 4 ncq 229376 out > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600531] res > 40/00:20:90:6e:eb/00:00:22:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600538] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600547] ata3: hard resetting link > Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.092521] ata3: SATA link up > 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) > Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.099092] ata3.00: configured > for UDMA/133 > Oct 17 12:00:20 tony-lx kernel: [ 8839.099121] ata3: EH complete
Hmpf. Could be anything. But as a first shot I'd try unseating and re-seating the disk's SATA cable (or exchanging it). And before and above everything: make frequent backups! regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlYiV+MACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ5pwCfdopAWMpZYyEUzxD0Bq6gYMmi SdQAnRfbuxXBXZl+r+pExmSEzb4bykeZ =jdUX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----