F19 Disc Chundering

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Jonathan Allen <jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk> writes:

> Heinz,
>
>> > Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3538.326139] ata4: hard resetting link
>> > Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3538.989992] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
>> > Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3539.007104] ata4.00: configured for PIO0
>> > Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3539.022994] ata4: EH complete
>> 
>> > This happens about every 30 seconds.  Any idea what is going on?
>> 
>> Could you install hdparm and see if this is still happening after a
>> "hdparm -W0 /dev/sda"?
>
> It only appears to happen when running from the F19 Designer/32-bit system,
> before doing the "yum update".  After that, or running F19 Xfce/32, there
> is no noise or activity.  Strange.

That might be some power management issue, i. e. something (the SATA
controller (port) ) sleeping and being woken up frequently.


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