[olug] ata8 identification

[Brady Cox]

That may.  I'll have to get back to you on that.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> What does "lshw" report?  When I run mine and I search for "ata4" (one of my
> HDDs) I get this:
> === begin ===
>  P: /devices/pci0000:00/*0000:00:11.0*/ata4/ata_port/ata4
>  E: UDEV_LOG=3
>  E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ata4/ata_port/ata4
>  E: SUBSYSTEM=ata_port
> === end ===
>
> Later, looking for other "0000:00:11.0" strings I get this:
> === begin ===
>>> block.5.1: /dev/sr0 cache
>  scsi cache: 0x00
>  block: name = *sda*, path = /class/block/sda
>    dev = 8:0
>    range = 16
>    block device: bus = scsi, bus_id = 2:0:0:0 driver = sd
>      path = /devices/pci0000:00/*0000:00:11.0*/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0
>    vendor = ATA
>    model = WDC WD1501FASS-0
>    rev = 05.0
>    type = 0
> === end ===
>
> Which matches with my /dev/sda being that drive.
>
> Does that help any?
>
> DanL
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 00:44, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>
>> My kern.log has been filling up with a bunch of these errors lately:
>>
>>
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112033] ata8.00: exception Emask
>> 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112038] ata8.00: failed command:
>> FLUSH CACHE EXT
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112044] ata8.00: cmd
>> ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112046]          res
>> 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112048] ata8.00: status: { DRDY }
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112053] ata8: hard resetting link
>> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112055] ata8: nv: skipping
>> hardreset on occupied port
>> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.580033] ata8: SATA link up 3.0
>> Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
>> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692431] ata8.00: configured for
>> UDMA/133
>> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692437] ata8.00: retrying FLUSH
>> 0xea Emask 0x4
>> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692707] ata8.00: device reported
>> invalid CHS sector 0
>> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692717] ata8: EH complete
>>
>>
>> How do I determine which of the 5 hard drives in my system is ata8?
>> Ubuntu 11.04, BTW.  Disk Utility doesn't list an ATA number for any
>> of the devices.  The SMART data for all 5 drives says they're OK.
>>
>> I've been experiencing a lot of unreliabilitiy in the system lately --
>> processes like firefox or even doc apps dying spontaneously, etc.
>> I'm wondering if one of my drives is getting flaky and causing that.
>> However, I've got enough RAM that I almost never page, so I don't
>> think it's an issue of my swap partitions going bad.
>>
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