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 >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> 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 -- Dr Stephen Brooks http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/ Solar MHD Theory Group Tel :: 01334 463735 Fax :: 01334 463748 E-mail :: steveb at mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk --------------------------------------- Mathematical Institute North Haugh University of St. Andrews St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS SCOTLAND ---------------------------------------