SATA - System Freezes
Geoffrey Leach
geoff at hughes.net
Tue Jun 17 21:51:29 UTC 2008
On 06/17/2008 10:25:46 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm running Fedora 8 and my system freezes (for about 20 to 40
> seconds) a
> couple of times a day. When it does I see this on /var/log/messages:
>
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> -------------------------------------
>
> kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
> frozen
> kernel: ata3.00: cmd ca/00:50:67:85:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma
> 40960 out
> kernel: res 40/00:00:76:6c:03/84:00:10:00:00/e0 Emask 0x4
> (timeout)
> kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
> kernel: ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status
> 0xd0)
> kernel: ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
> kernel: ata3: soft resetting link
> kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
> kernel: ata3: EH complete
> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 321672960 512-byte hardware sectors (164697
> MB)
> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled,
> doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
>
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> -------------------------------------
>
> /dev/sdc is my main drive. The only thing I can think of...is that
> this drive
> is actually a PATA drive connected to the SATA controller on MoBo
> thru
>
> a "SATA-TO-IDE Adapter" that I connect on the drive. Perhaps the
> converter is
> faulty...or could this be a known issue with libata? Anyone had same
> problem?
I have _exactly_ the same problem. Here's the output from smartctl --
all. I'd be delighted to do any (non-destructive!) testing that might
be useful.
============ smartctl --all
smartctl version 5.38 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.1 series
Device Model: ST910021A
Serial Number: 3MH08Q1W
Firmware Version: 3.04
User Capacity: 100,030,242,816 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue Jun 17 14:41:18 2008 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection
activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection:
Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test
routine
completed
without error or no self-test
has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 426) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline
immediate.
Auto Offline data collection
on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon
new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test
supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before
entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging
support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0001) SCT Status supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 052 040 006 Pre-fail
Always - 130929108
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 094 000 Pre-fail
Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age
Always - 1648
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030 Pre-fail
Always - 38477626
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age
Always - 2388
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age
Always - 1646
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 068 053 045 Old_age
Always - 32 (Lifetime Min/Max 26/32)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 788
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age
Always - 198133
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 032 047 000 Old_age
Always - 32 (0 13 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 050 044 000 Old_age
Always - 96189138
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime
(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 276
-
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 262
-
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute
delay.
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