Hi All
Motherboard: ASUS P5VD2-MX SE
(BIOS 0602)
DVD: TSSTCorp SH-S128D
Hard drive: 320GB SATA1 Maxtor STM33320820AS
Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz, Cores: 2
Linux 2.6.22.13-0.3-default x86_64
System: openSUSE 10.3 (x86_64)
KDE: 3.5.7 "release 72.2"
Model: GeForce 7300 GS
I've recently upgraded to 10.3 with a full/new install from a previously
fully functional 10.2 (no hardware changed during the upgrade). I'm now
getting a significant run of "ata3.00:exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr
0x0 action 0x2 frozen" error messages.
The effect is such that, for example, if I don't start VirtualBox
immediately, after booting the system, it just hangs ...
The relevant part of dmesg are (with multiple occurrences of):
"
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x1a data 255 in
res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata3: soft resetting link
ata3.00: configured for PIO0
ata3: EH complete
"
plus, the occasional:
"
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 00
sr: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor]
sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
"
The configuration for the drive starts with "UDMA/33" and slowly
deteriorates to "PIO0".
Following one prompt, in dmesg, I tried editing /etc/smartd.conf to
uncomment "/dev/sda -a -d sat". But no luck ... the "frozen" message
continues ...
I've done a major Google around this topic and can find no obvious
consistency with the potential cause or solution; it appears independent
of hardware/software/Linux version/drivers/... I initially though the
problem was with EXT3 journalling (as the impact appears to increases
over time - but I cannot fathom how to force a check of EXT3 at boot).
If I try to run "Repair Installed System", from the original
installation DVD, it just reboots ...
I'm lost for a solution ...
Further information: "/sbin/lspci | grep IDE" gives:
"
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port
Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
"
Has anybody solved this for OpenSUSE Linux 2.6.22, or can help me
investigate it further ...
Cheers
B
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