Is my hard disk giving up the ghost?

Markus Lindholm markus.lindholm at gmail.com
Sun May 6 09:52:13 UTC 2007 

Hi

Is there somebody on the list that could assist me in interpreting the
log messages I've started to get, attahced at the end of the post.

I have a machine with FC6 and the latest kernel and it has started to
act up, the system will hang for a minute or so, at the same time the
suspicious log messages appear. It is the hard disk I have the root
partition on. I haven't noticed any data corruption and I've backuped
my home directory. Is the the only thing to do to buy a new disk and
reinstall?

Thanks
Markus

May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0
notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x2
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 1: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 2: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 3: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 4: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 5: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 6: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 7: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 8: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 9: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 10: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 11: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 12: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 13: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 14: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 15: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 16: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 17: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 18: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 19: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 20: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 21: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 22: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 23: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 24: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 25: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 26: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 27: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 28: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 29: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 30: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: Resetting port
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1
SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3.00: cmd
60/08:00:0d:3d:73/00:00:04:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel:          res
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: soft resetting port
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113
SControl 300)
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: ata3: EH complete
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: SCSI device sda: 80293248 512-byte hdwr
sectors (41110 MB)
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
May  6 09:52:35 zeus kernel: SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled,
read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0
notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x2
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 1: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 2: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 3: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 4: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 5: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 6: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 7: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 8: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 9: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 10: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:35 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 11: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 12: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 13: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 14: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 15: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 16: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 17: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 18: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 19: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 20: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 21: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 22: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 23: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 24: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 25: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 26: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 27: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 28: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 29: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: CPB 30: ctl_flags 0x1e, resp_flags 0x1
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: Resetting port
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1
SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3.00: cmd
60/08:00:0d:3d:73/00:00:04:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel:          res
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: soft resetting port
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113
SControl 300)
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: ata3: EH complete
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: SCSI device sda: 80293248 512-byte hdwr
sectors (41110 MB)
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
May  6 09:53:36 zeus kernel: SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled,
read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

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