[Bug 269652] Re: Worrying message " ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up" from dmesg

[Michael Sandford]

I'm getting this error on boot and it is rendering my two SATA drives
unusable.  The system still boots and runs off of the PATA disk.  I'm
running 9.04 and my kernel is up-to-date.  I've seen this get fixed and
opened and fixed and opened and I was wondering what it would take to
re-open it.  The machine in question is a Gateway GT5220
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1009151/1009151sp3.shtml

sandford at compy586:~$ uname -a
Linux compy586 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

sandford at compy586:~$ dmesg | tail -n 20
[  837.538570] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  837.538600] ata1: hard resetting link
[  837.802550] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  837.802571] ata2: hard resetting link
[  838.271564] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  838.271580] ata1: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up
[  838.271587] ata1: EH complete
[  838.287149] ata1: hard resetting link
[  838.534566] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  838.534598] ata2: hard resetting link
[  839.022578] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  839.022607] ata1: hard resetting link
[  839.267605] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  839.267634] ata2: hard resetting link
[  839.754561] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  839.754586] ata1: hard resetting link
[  839.999574] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 100 SControl 300)
[  839.999594] ata2: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up
[  839.999600] ata2: EH complete
[  840.007298] ata2: hard resetting link

-- 
Worrying message " ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up" from dmesg
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269652
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel
Bugs, which is subscribed to Linux.