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ziabice

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Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 14

Kernel 2.6.31.6: libata says "device reported invalid CHS sector 0"

Hi!,
this morning my hard disk for some seconds freezed, but spinning wildly.

The log reported a lot of:

Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7e0fffff SErr 0x0 action
0x6 frozen
Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: cmd 61/00:00:ee:4d:28/04:00:16:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 524288 out
Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: res 40/00:04:b0:df:3c/00:00:2c:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: status: { DRDY }

[...cut...]

Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: cmd 61/00:f0:de:0d:28/04:00:16:00:00/40 tag 30 ncq 524288 out
Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
Nov 20 11:16:55 accipigna kernel: ata5: hard resetting link
Nov 20 11:16:56 accipigna kernel: ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Nov 20 11:16:56 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133

Followed by a lot of:

Nov 20 11:16:56 accipigna kernel: ata5.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0

"smartctl" say that everything is ok with my disk (don't worry I have backups ).

In these day I noticed a slowing down of disk operations: the "Midnight Command" filemanager took ages to start as it did with older kernel releases (I use it dayly so I noticed the difference). The slow down happened after upgrading to kernel 2.6.31.6.

drogas

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Registered: 2009-12-01

Posts: 1

Re: Kernel 2.6.31.6: libata says "device reported invalid CHS sector 0"

I have the same issue, I did a backup of my entire disk with ddrescue, after kernel panic, and yes it was after installing kernel 2.6.31.*.
I used other applications to check HD physically  but they doesn't show errors.
So, I'm trying to install another OS with a different kernel.
I suppose that this would be fine.
Thanks.

ziabice

Member

Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 14

Re: Kernel 2.6.31.6: libata says "device reported invalid CHS sector 0"

I replaced the disk that does the error: now everything works well. The disk was in a RAID array and often it degraded it, so I suspect it was a hardware error (even if smartclt says that everything is OK).
I can tell you more today, when I go to my computer shop to ask for RMA