On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:11:22PM +0300, Thanasis wrote: > Early during booting phase, dmesg shows: > > [ 0.515651] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdefe000 port > 0xfdefe180 irq 17 > [ 0.833387] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > > But later, it reports lots like the following stanza: > > [164362.715469] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 > action 0xe frozen > [164362.715474] ata6: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed > [164362.715479] ata6: SError: { DevExch } > [164362.715490] ata6: hard resetting link > [164363.433615] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > [164363.446934] ata6: EH complete > > Is it related to a disk drive, and if so, is there a way to know which > drive is on ata6? > > PS: There are two drives attached to the system, reported by dmesg like so: > [ 0.872490] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks: > (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB) > [ 0.874828] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 > GB/232 GiB) Short and sweet... bad SATA cable, bad controller, or bad drive.
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