[CentOS] SATA errors in log

[Steve Brooks]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Reindl Harald wrote:

>
>
> Am 22.06.2012 13:58, schrieb Steve Brooks:
>> I have a SATA PCIe 6Gbps 4 port controller card made by Startech. The
>> kernel (Linux viz1 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64) sees it as
>>
>>   Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9123
>>
>> I use it to provide extra SATA ports to a raid system.
>> The HD's are all "WD2003FYYS" and so run at 3Gbps on the 6Gbps controller.
>> However I am seeing lots of instances of errors like this
>>
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>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x4 SErr
>> 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen
>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface
>> fatal error
>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13: SError: { Handshk }
>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13.00: cmd
>> 61/e8:10:98:05:1b/01:00:66:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 249856 out
>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13.00: status: { DRDY }
>> Jun 22 03:13:23 viz1 kernel: ata13: hard resetting link
>> Jun 22 03:13:24 viz1 kernel: ata13: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123
>> SControl 330)
>> Jun 22 03:13:24 viz1 kernel: ata13.00: configured for UDMA/133
>> Jun 22 03:13:24 viz1 kernel: ata13: EH complete
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> Vendor ID : 1b4b
>> Device ID : 9123
>>
>> I tried to see what drivers were currently being used but the command
>> below gave nothing
>
>
> why do you care for drivers?
>
> this looks like dying hard-drives are always looking in syslog

Hi Reindl,

I should have mentioned I swapped out the hard-drive and same errors on 
new drive. I checked the SMART attributes of the drive and nothing 
untoward, also executed the

smartctl -long ....

test wich came back error free.

Steve


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