Couple of possibilites:
- Hard disk is failing
- Insufficient power available for your hard disk, causing it to spin up
then spin down again
- Controller error
- Faulty connection or SATA port
The more likely possibilities are 1 and 3.
If you can get another hard disk to test, that will narrow down the
possibilities.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM, surreal <firewal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on
> starting the computer..
>
> I typed dmesg and found these messages
>
> [ 304.694936] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> [ 304.694939] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
> [ 304.694954] ata4: soft resetting link
> [ 304.938280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
> [ 304.938293] ata4: EH complete
> [ 304.970866] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
> [ 304.970873] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26
> [ 304.970884] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:38:f6:2a:94/00:00:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma
> 28672 in
> [ 304.970887] res 51/84:18:16:2b:94/84:00:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30
> (host bus error)
> [ 304.970891] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> [ 304.970895] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
> [ 304.970909] ata4: soft resetting link
> [ 305.218280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
> [ 305.218296] ata4: EH complete
> [ 305.880378] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
> [ 305.880385] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26
> [ 305.880397] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:80:fe:22:8e/00:01:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma
> 196608 in
> [ 305.880399] res 51/84:60:1e:23:8e/84:01:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30
> (host bus error)
> [ 305.880404] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> [ 305.880408] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
> [ 305.880423] ata4: soft resetting link
> [ 306.126281] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
> [ 306.126297] ata4: EH complete
>
>
> What do these messages mean? What is the solution to prevent these messages
> from appearing? Help!
>
> --
> Harshad Joshi
>
>
>
