I'm stumped trying to track down the below intermittent problem.....
I've confirmed this problem on 2.6.19, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21.
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: cmd
ca/00:18:87:e7:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 12288 out
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: res
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2: soft resetting port
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port
0x0001c807
Jun 14 07:55:52 nigel-m2v kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port
0x0001c807
Jun 14 07:56:22 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
Jun 14 07:56:22 nigel-m2v kernel: ata2.00: failed to set xfermode
(err_mask=0x4)
Try 2.6.22-rc4-gitX...
Is there a patch in particular I can maybe apply? I see you made a
couple of commits ... my problem is this is also happening on one of my
production boxes which has a few other patches applied, I'm a bit scared
of conflicts ... I don't really want to break anything by upgrading the
kernel.