[PLUG] disk problem

Denis Heidtmann denish at dslnorthwest.net
Tue Feb 24 03:44:21 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
>> xxxx at r2d3:~$ dmesg | grep error
>> [   30.788060] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not 
>> found.
>> [   37.592214]          res 51/84:00:80:f6:4f/00:00:00:00:00/fe Emask 0x10 (ATA 
>> bus error)
>> [   37.592223] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
>> [   37.941575]          res 51/84:00:80:f6:4f/00:00:00:00:00/fe Emask 0x10 (ATA 
>> bus error)
>> [   37.941584] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
>> [   38.290936]          res 51/84:00:80:f6:4f/00:00:00:00:00/fe Emask 0x10 (ATA 
>> bus error)
>> [   38.290945] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
>> ...
> 
> Huh, that does seem to point toward a cabling problem, but are there any
> other messages (that don't have the string "error" in them) before or
> after those specific instances?
> 

Here are two sections.  (I did not realize that dmesg generates a new set of 
messages during each boot, so I did not save the result from the first boot 
following the crash. But the same errors appear from this boot.)  I shut down 
and reboot often--saving kW.


[   36.830344] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, 
doesn't support DPO or
  FUA
[   36.830352]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 <<3>ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 
0x0 action 0x2
[   36.924881] ata1.01: BMDMA stat 0x64
[   36.924894] ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:48:9f:0a/00:00:00:00:00/fe tag 0 dma 4096 in
[   36.924897]          res 51/84:00:48:9f:0a/00:00:00:00:00/fe Emask 0x10 (ATA 
bus error)
[   36.924902] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
[   36.924906] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[   36.924957] ata1: soft resetting link
[   37.035707] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[   37.205532] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.219847] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.219869] ata1: EH complete
[   37.250891] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   37.282566] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
[   37.282576] ata1.01: BMDMA stat 0x64
[   37.282587] ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:48:9f:0a/00:00:00:00:00/fe tag 0 dma 4096 in
[   37.282590]          res 51/84:00:48:9f:0a/00:00:00:00:00/fe Emask 0x10 (ATA 
bus error)
[   37.282595] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
[   37.282598] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[   37.282651] ata1: soft resetting link
[   37.507071] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[   37.513307] input: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse as 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/usb1/1-2/1
-2:1.0/input/input2
[   37.527085] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Basic Optical 
Mouse] on usb-0000:00:0
7.0-2
[   37.527118] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   37.527124] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: 
v2.6:USB HID core driver
[   37.546599] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.559394] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.559421] ata1: EH complete
[   37.559526] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[   37.573198]  sdb5 >
[   37.573396] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[   37.582942] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   37.582951] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   37.583036] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, 
doesn't support DPO or
  FUA

and

[   87.341456] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 3674.041382] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
[ 3674.041395] ata1.01: BMDMA stat 0x64
[ 3674.041407] ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:cf:9b:8c/00:00:00:00:00/f4 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 3674.041409]          res 51/84:00:cf:9b:8c/00:00:00:00:00/f4 Emask 0x10 (ATA 
bus error)
[ 3674.041414] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 3674.041419] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 3674.041470] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 3674.322300] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3674.327596] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/66
[ 3674.327622] ata1: EH complete
[ 3674.382348] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
[ 3674.382360] ata1.01: BMDMA stat 0x64
[ 3674.382371] ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:cf:9b:8c/00:00:00:00:00/f4 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 3674.382374]          res 51/84:00:cf:9b:8c/00:00:00:00:00/f4 Emask 0x10 (ATA 
bus error)
[ 3674.382379] ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 3674.382383] ata1.01: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 3674.382435] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 3674.646074] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3674.655149] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/66
[ 3674.655176] ata1: EH complete
[ 3674.655280] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[ 3674.674002] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 3674.674012] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3674.674062] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, 
doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3674.674109] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 240121728 512-byte hardware sectors (122942 MB)

This is all Greek to me.

-Denis



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