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October 26, 2007
Reliable Storage: Just In Time?
Over the last couple weeks, my primary machine has been acting flaky - I'll come in in the morning to check my mail before leaving for work, and the machine won't wake up, and won't let me ssh in.
Yesterday I got a lead, and it's not great...
Spotted this in the system logs:
Oct 25 22:54:47 rage kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
Oct 25 22:54:47 rage kernel: ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x5)
Oct 25 22:54:47 rage kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:00:b1:2d:84/00:04:0c:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 in
Oct 25 22:54:47 rage kernel: res 51/84:00:b1:2d:84/84:04:0c:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Oct 25 22:54:47 rage kernel: ata1: soft resetting port
Oct 25 22:54:48 rage kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Oct 25 22:54:48 rage kernel: ata1: EH complete
Looks like it's been happening since a recent kernel upgrade, so it's possible that it's a software problem, but it's also possible that my motherboard is preparing to eat my internal hard drives for lunch.
Posted by dberger at October 26, 2007 11:50 AM