SATA - System Freezes

Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 17:25:46 UTC 2008


Hello Everyone,

I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40 seconds) a 
couple of times a day. When it does I see this on /var/log/messages:

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kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:50:67:85:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 40960 out
kernel:          res 40/00:00:76:6c:03/84:00:10:00:00/e0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
kernel: ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
kernel: ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
kernel: ata3: soft resetting link
kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
kernel: ata3: EH complete
kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 321672960 512-byte hardware sectors (164697 MB)
kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO or FUA

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/dev/sdc is my main drive. The only thing I can think of...is that this drive 
is actually a PATA drive connected to the SATA controller on MoBo thru 
a "SATA-TO-IDE Adapter" that I connect on the drive. Perhaps the converter is 
faulty...or could this be a known issue with libata?  Anyone had same 
problem?

Thanks,
Jorge




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