'Disk Sleep' Problem

[Rares Aioanei]

On 04/25/2010 09:00 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>
>    
>> I will check into that.
>>      
> I examined /var/log/messages and I see some strange stuff:
>
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel: ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel: ata3.00: cmd
> c8/00:e0:c2:b1:b6/00:00:00:00:00/e4 tag 0 dma 114688 in
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel:         res
> 51/84:e0:c2:b1:b6/00:00:00:00:00/e4 Emask 0x30 (host bus error)
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel: ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel: ata3.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel: ata3.00: hard resetting link
> Apr 25 10:16:29 localhost kernel: ata3.01: hard resetting link
> Apr 25 10:16:30 localhost kernel: ata3.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123
> SControl 300)
> Apr 25 10:16:30 localhost kernel: ata3.01: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl
> 300)
> Apr 25 10:16:30 localhost kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
> Apr 25 10:16:30 localhost kernel: ata3: EH complete
> Apr 25 10:16:36 localhost kernel: ata3.00: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5
> Gbps
> Apr 25 10:16:36 localhost kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr
> 0x280100 action 0x6
> Apr 25 10:16:36 localhost kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x26
> Apr 25 10:16:36 localhost kernel: ata3.00: SError: { UnrecovData 10B8B BadCRC
> }
>
> This occurs dozens and dozens of times. It looks like a disk error. But after
> the reboot and disabling Power Devil, there is not one occurrence of the
> above errors in the new log. Yet, Power Devil should only be running once KDE
> starts, shouldn't it? Or does it with the booting of the computer?
>
>    
PowerDevil is KDE-specific; however I'd be very careful about the disks.