Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:52:54 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Seagate disk freeze for 30 seconds then comes back (RecovComm 10B8B) |
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Catalin(ux) M. BOIE wrote: > Hello! > > I have a ST9160821AS drive, firmware 3.BHE, and I experience some seldom > problems with it. It is in a HP 6715s HP laptop, kernel 2.6.27.5. > > The error message is: > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80002 action 0x6 frozen > ata1: SError: { RecovComm 10B8B } > ata1.00: cmd ca/00:f8:11:b8:38/00:00:00:00:00/ec tag 0 dma 126976 out > res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > ata1: hard resetting link > ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata1.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd > ata1.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata1: EH complete > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB) > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't > support DPO or FUA > > When it happens, the system freezes for around 30 seconds. > > Seagate told me that there is no firmware update for this drive. > > Please, let me know if it is a software issue.
Quite unlikely, it looks like something caused the communications with the drive to be dropped. It's likely either a drive, cabling/connection or power problem (the latter two seem unlikely in a laptop though, unless the drive isn't connected all the way or something..)
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