[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 18:16:29 UTC 2009


> I agree that its not that likely, but I guess its possible now that I
> examine the problem in my head.  I moved my 2 SATA drives to SATA 3 & 4
> (from SATA 1 & 2) and I still have the same problem.  If the MB was bad, or
> at least had issues, I'd think that moving to another port would take care
> of it.  Unless, of course, all 4 ports suddenly went to crap.
>
> I guess the MB could still be the problem, or the main HD went bad.  I'll
> try a few things tonight when I get home and see what I find out.
>>
>> Something I just thought of: If your mobo has "fake" RAID, that might be
>> causing problems. Try going into the BIOS setup and disabling any RAID
>> functions. I once saw a mobo that worked with Linux only if the fake RAID
>> was enabled, not intuitive but it worked that way.
>>
>>
There may not be any real issue. I mean at work I get errors like this
on one of my older systems for years however the drive is just fine
and there has been no known issue other than the output in dmesg. I
believe this started with a kernel update possibly to 2.6.18.

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x686d0009
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:b7:8d:57/00:00:00:00:00/ee tag 0 dma 4096 in
         res 51/04:00:be:8d:57/00:00:19:00:00/ee Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
ata1: EH complete
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA

John


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