gnome frozen

[Ian Malone]

On 24 March 2013 10:42, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:36:21 +0000
> Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [15523.867808] ata3: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x7 sactive 0x7
>> [15523.867822] ata3: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x1 defer_bits 0x6
>> last_issue_tag 0x0 dhfis 0x1 dmafis 0x1 sdbfis 0x0
>> [15523.867834] ata3: ATA_REG 0x40 ERR_REG 0x0
>> [15523.867840] ata3: tag : dhfis dmafis sdbfis sactive
>> [15523.867846] ata3: tag 0x0: 1 1 0 1
>> [15523.867868] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7 SErr 0x0
>> action 0x6 frozen [15523.867876] ata3.00: failed command: WRITE
>> FPDMA QUEUED [15523.867891] ata3.00: cmd
>> 61/08:00:80:6b:c3/00:00:1d:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out
>> (before anyone asks, BZ #917826)
>>
>
> try the disk on another controller.
> see if it's repeated.

Yes, finally getting around to doing that. Hadn't previously (though
had tried other things, changing cables etc.) as the previous disc on
that port had no problems and Windows on the same system is okay. Have
occassionally thought it was fixed, but very infrequent and can be a
long time between occurences.

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