ATA errors

[quetzal at roks.biz]

On Thursday, 22 July 2004 at 10:32:20 +0100, George Barnett wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having a few issues and I could use another brain on this.  I have a 
> machine which is throwing up ata errors like this:
> 
> Jul 22 00:16:16 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: ad2s1e: soft error (ECC 
> corrected) reading fsbn 77465920 of 38732960-38733087 (ad2s1 bn 
> 77465920; cn 461106 tn 18 sn 4)ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 77465920 
> of 38732960-38733087 (ad2s1 bn 77465920; cn 461106 tn 18 sn 4)ad2: 
> timeout waiting for cmd=ef s=00 e=7f
> Jul 22 00:16:16 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: trying PIO mode
> Jul 22 00:16:18 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: ad2s1e: soft error (ECC 
> corrected) reading fsbn 77465920 of 38732960-38733087 (ad2s1 bn 
> 77465920; cn 461106 tn 18 sn 4)ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 77465920 
> of 38732960-38733087 (ad2s1 bn 77465920; cn 461106 tn 18 sn 4) status=7f 
> error=7f
> Jul 22 00:16:18 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: ad2: timeout waiting for DRQ - 
> resetting
> Jul 22 00:16:18 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: ata1: resetting devices ..
> Jul 22 00:16:18 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: ad2: removed from configuration
> Jul 22 00:16:18 <kern.crit> mail /kernel: done

Hi, George.
	Meybe it's just a shoot in the darkness, but when I saw this 
message couple of days ago, I simply replased a power cable, going from a 
power unit. I think that all problem in a socket of that cable. Anyway
troubles have disappeared after that.

Best regards,
	Nikolay Pavlov.