ata timeouts

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:54:34 +0530
Vikram Goyal <vikigoyal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am getting these messages with my new hard drive and it freeaez for
> some time. Is it hardware or kernel related?
> 
> Mar 26 21:42:48 mahashiv kernel: ata4.00: cmd 25/00:00:91:33:c9/00:02:16:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 262144 in
> Mar 26 21:42:48 mahashiv kernel:          res 40/00:01:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Mar 26 21:42:48 mahashiv kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY }

We got tired of waiting for the drive. That may indicate bad blocks so
see what the SMART data says