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when there is excessive I/O, System Hangs

May 19, 2008 - 6:18pm
Submitted by Anonymous on May 19, 2008 - 6:18pm.
Linux

Here is my Problem
Whenever, There is excessive I/O utilization of HDD my system hangs. By pressing ALT+F2.
can see this error message, printing again & again on the terminal in very short intervals.

ata2.00: status: {DRDY ERR}
ata2.00: error: {UNC}
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: DMDMA stat 0x5
ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:06:fd:6e/00:00:00:00:/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in

After that i Pressed ALT+PRINTSCN+R+E

voila system is stable again, and i can login.
now again after some 60secs the problems repeats & same thing is repeated.
But the 60 secs were enough for me to get Logs.

Syslog ==> http://digit.wsnw.net/uploads/dmesg.txt
Dmesg ==> http://digit.wsnw.net/uploads/syslog.txt

When the problem occurs:
1) while Booting Up
2) fschk is running
3) Due to Firefox3, Bug #215728

Which clearly means, where is no problem while idling but Is there is any Heavy I/O opeartion.
Game is Over and system Hangs

About My system:
Amd Athlon 64 3000+
MSI-k8mm-v
1 GB drr 400 RAM
Nvidia 6200 128MB Graphics
Seagate ST380815AS(just 2 months old)
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 x64
Dual Booting with Windows xp

I first i though my hdd is gone, but then How does windows xp work fine?

Regards,
Gaurish Sharma

May 20 13:42:04 mserv

May 20, 2008 - 6:47am
Anonymous (not verified)

May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149445] ata4.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149479] ata4.01: cmd ca/00:20:97:04:cb/00:00:00:00:00/f3 tag 0 dma 16384 out
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149481] res 40/00:00:ce:70:eb/84:00:03:00:00/f3 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149512] ata4.01: status: { DRDY }
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64987.182353] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64992.163315] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64992.163323] ata4: soft resetting link
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140425] ata4.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140435] ata4.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140439] ata4.01: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140463] ata4: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65033.178281] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.159242] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.159250] ata4: soft resetting link
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.416615] ata4.01: configured for UDMA/33
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.416638] ata4: EH complete

Heeelpp!!!

device not ready (errno=-16)

May 20, 2008 - 6:48am
Anonymous (not verified)

May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149445] ata4.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149479] ata4.01: cmd ca/00:20:97:04:cb/00:00:00:00:00/f3 tag 0 dma 16384 out
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149481] res 40/00:00:ce:70:eb/84:00:03:00:00/f3 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64982.149512] ata4.01: status: { DRDY }
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64987.182353] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64992.163315] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [64992.163323] ata4: soft resetting link
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140425] ata4.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140435] ata4.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140439] ata4.01: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65023.140463] ata4: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65033.178281] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.159242] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.159250] ata4: soft resetting link
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.416615] ata4.01: configured for UDMA/33
May 20 13:42:04 mserv kernel: [65038.416638] ata4: EH complete

No, you have a different problem which is similar

June 9, 2008 - 9:45am
Anonymous (not verified)

Parent poster has a different problem from the OP, as well as a different problem from most of the ubuntu bug reports linked.

They're all hard drive problems. They're all with different hard drives - different models, different speeds, different vendors. They all have similar terms in the errors, but they're not all the same error. As near as I can tell, these problems are all hardware-specific to different hardware.

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