Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:13:33 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 / SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen |
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Bill Davidsen wrote: > Gwendal Grignou wrote: >> About ata1:0 problem, as reported in the bugzilla bug: I would try to >> disable NCQ to see if it helps. Your disks firmware might not fully >> support it. >> >> You can either add the parameter "libata.force=noncq" when loading >> your kernel, or set queue_depth to 1 for all the Seagate drives behind >> the Marvell MV88SX6081 controller. >> >> About ata5:0 , someone - in user space probably - is trying to do a >> SMART ENABLE operation, but the device ignores it. I don't know which >> device you are using, but I assume it does not support ATA SMART >> feature set. Timeout is an acceptable but not a nice way to answer, a >> cancel would have been better; check if there is a firmware upgrade >> for your device. >> > > You certainly called the SMART issue, I was wondering why a new > distribution install on some older hardware was getting all the errors, > clearly the Fedora "smartd" doesn't check SMART capability before trying > to enable the feature. Oddly the drive on which I see this does reply to > SMART requests, so the firmware must be "semi-functional." Not a > problem, in my case the drive is just used for testing handling of hot > swap, and has no data of any value.
Can you post full kernel log including the boot messages and the error messages? Also, please attach the output of hdparm -I on the drive which fails the smart command.
(cc'ing Bruce, hi!) Bruce, this is the second report I see about drive timing out SMART ENABLE OPERATIONS. Does anything ring a bell?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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