About "ata1: command....."

Fajar Priyanto fajarpri at cbn.net.id
Fri Apr 21 11:04:34 UTC 2006


On Friday 21 April 2006 15:33, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> FC5_64
> While I ran "yum update" on "init 3" following text displayed on the
> screen continuously
> ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
> ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
> ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
> .......
> another occasion was while clearning the installing files after
> updating the packages
> I have to press "reset" to re-start the PC.
> The above text has been displayed occasionally on this PC even not
> running "yum update"
> What did this line indicate?  How to avoid it.

It could be a sign that your harddisk is failing. If you have precious data on 
it, you'd better quickly save them on to another disk.

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