On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, shirish wrote:
[284.072041] ata2.00:exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[284.072119] ata2.00:cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00/a0 tag0
[284.072122] cdb 1b 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[284.072124] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[284.072300] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
So, in the end it really was hardware problems again leading to fs corruption?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/310279
There are lots of similar bugs regarding these ata* messages, you might want to link to duplicates....
Christian. -- BOFH excuse #168: le0: no carrier: transceiver cable problem?