[CentOS] SATA errors on CentOS 5.2

Tue Nov 4 00:57:35 UTC 2008
Joseph L. Casale <JCasale at activenetwerx.com>

>/var/log/messages.1-Nov  1 18:19:00 Centos5 kernel: hda: status
>timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>/var/log/messages.1:Nov  1 18:19:00 Centos5 kernel: ide: failed opcode
>was: unknown
>/var/log/messages.1-Nov  1 18:19:00 Centos5 kernel: hda: no DRQ after
>issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
>/var/log/messages.1-Nov  1 18:19:00 Centos5 kernel: ide0: reset: success

Is your Mass Storage Controller configured as IDE instead of AHCI?

>What am I missing?  Is it odd to have two SATA controllers for a
>single disk drive, or is that at all relevant?

You don't, it would be odd :) What model of mobo?
I would be curious to check the manual, it's been a while since I
worked on an ICH8 chipset so I wonder about the storage config setting.