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Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 177 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: Abnormal status / timeouts on ata port |
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Initially I posted here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-688588.html but this forum is a better suited place I guess.
Rewrap of the problem: Since yesterday my file/web/media server (gentoo) has been acting up. When unrarring / unzipping an archive (no matter the size), the unarchiving will halt at some point, the load will rise and rise and rise and the machine locks up. I found out it is an ata-problem. I have 4 s-ata discs of which 3 are in an LVM2 volume group.
Snaps from /var/log/messages:
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Apr 17 19:02:38 iris ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x2 frozen
Apr 17 19:02:38 iris ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x61)
Apr 17 19:02:38 iris ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout)
Apr 17 19:02:45 iris ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient
Apr 17 19:03:08 iris ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs)
Apr 17 19:03:08 iris ata1: soft resetting port
Apr 17 19:03:15 iris ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port 0xFFFFC20000022C87
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port 0xFFFFC20000022C87
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port 0xFFFFC20000022C87
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port 0xFFFFC20000022C87
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ATA: abnormal status 0xD9 on port 0xFFFFC20000022C87
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: hard resetting port
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: EH complete
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x60)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: EH complete
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x60)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: EH complete
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x60)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
Apr 17 19:04:18 iris ata1: EH complete
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Would this be a hardware failure? The kernel itself (2.6.18-ck1) dates back to september '06 I think, so I doubt it's a problem in there. The chipset is an RS480(M). |
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