sata_nv OK in f10?

[Tom Horsley]

Just wondering if anyone has seen problems with sata_nv
driver on fedora 10?

I was downloading updates earlier, and my machine started
freezing up and windows started disappearing. Typing reboot
made it go into a 100% cpu state, so I eventually powered
off and back on and things have been OK since then.

Naturally I also suspect the disk may be failing, but it is
only a few months old, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else
has had suspicious disk problems since going to f10.

I found this gibberish in /var/log/message (no clue what it
might mean :-)

Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x3980000 action 0x6 frozen
Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1: SError: { 10B8B Dispar LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS }
Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1.00: cmd 35/00:40:95:d3:42/00:02:1f:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 294912 out
Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel:         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Dec  9 16:55:21 zooty kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: ata1: EH complete
Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Dec  9 16:55:22 zooty kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

I'll certainly keep a watch for additional errors (and make sure my
nightly backups keep running OK :-).