On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Dirk Riehle<dirk@riehle.org> wrote:
>
> I do have some weird every few days error where the soft raid blocks for a
> couple of seconds and I get this kernel log output:
>
> Jul 7 19:58:55 server kernel: [40336.000239] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> Jul 7 19:58:55 server kernel: [40336.000244] ata1.00: cmd
> 61/08:a0:a7:44:21/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 20 ncq 4096 out
> Jul 7 19:58:55 server kernel: [40336.000245] res
> 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>
> This an experimental machine, an old(er) Dell PowerEdge 800. I haven't had
> the time to look into this. Any thoughts?
Sounds like either bad hardware or a buggy driver. Sounds like the
drive / driver is resetting spontaneously.