spurious completions during NCQ - Lenovo R61i - FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL

[Wiktor Grebla]

Hi I'm getting quite a lot of these errors:
'''
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x70007 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x70007 FIS=004040a1:00008000)
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: cmd 61/10:00:26:0d:12/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 8192 out
[ 9932.004000] res 40/00:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: cmd 61/18:08:06:5e:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data 12288 out
[ 9932.004000] res 40/00:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: cmd 61/18:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 12288 out
[ 9932.004000] res 40/00:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:80:36:21:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 16 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out
[ 9932.004000] res 40/00:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:88:16:30:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 17 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out
[ 9932.004000] res 40/00:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 9932.004000] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:90:76:5c:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 18 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out
[ 9932.004000] res 40/00:10:9e:68:68/00:00:0c:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[ 9932.316000] ata1: soft resetting port
[ 9932.488000] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 9932.488000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 9932.488000] ata1: EH complete
'''

hdparm -I output is:

'''
/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number: FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL
        Serial Number: K10FT7A269UE
        Firmware Revision: 0084001E
        Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5; Revision: ATA8-AST T13 Project D1697 Revision 0b
Standards:
        Supported: 8 7 6 5
        Likely used: 8
Configuration:
        Logical max current
        cylinders 16383 16383
        heads 16 16
        sectors/track 63 63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
        LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
        LBA48 user addressable sectors: 312581808
        device size with M = 1024*1024: 152627 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000: 160041 MBytes (160 GB)
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Queue depth: 32
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
        Advanced power management level: 128 (0x80)
        Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           * SMART feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           * Power Management feature set
           * Write cache
           * Look-ahead
           * Host Protected Area feature set
           * WRITE_BUFFER command
           * READ_BUFFER command
           * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           * Advanced Power Management feature set
                SET_MAX security extension
           * Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
           * 48-bit Address feature set
           * Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
           * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
           * SMART error logging
           * SMART self-test
           * General Purpose Logging feature set
           * WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT
           * 64-bit World wide name
           * IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
           * Disable Data Transfer After Error Detection
           * WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE command
           * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           * SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
           * Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
           * Host-initiated interface power management
           * Phy event counters
                DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
           * Device-initiated interface power management
           * Software settings preservation
           * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
           * SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
           * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
           * SCT Features Control (AC4)
           * SCT Data Tables (AC5)
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not enabled
        not locked
                frozen
        not expired: security count
        not supported: enhanced erase
        160min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Checksum: correct
'''

I suppose this hard drive should be blacklisted (NCQ is disabled because of this errors anyway).

I'm a bit afraid. Nothing happened so far (no data loss and I've Ubuntu installed on this laptop for two
weeks) but my first installation (Arch Linux) ended up with a filesystem corruption, possibly
because of my attempts to get suspend to ram working.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

I have added this to my git tree for hardy. Thanks for the bug report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.24-5.8

---------------
linux (2.6.24-5.8) hardy; urgency=low

  [Alessio Igor Bogani]

  * rt: Update to 2.6.24-rc8-rt1
  * rt: Update configuration files

  [Amit Kucheria]

  * Asix: fix breakage caused in 2.6.24-rc7
  * Add CONFIG_CPUSETS to server-related flavours
    - LP: #182434

  [Chuck Short]

  * SAUCE: ata: blacklist FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL
    - LP: #175834

  [Kees Cook]

  * AppArmor: updated patch series to upstream SVN 1079.

  [Soren Hansen]

  * Updated configs to enable virtio stuff Ignore: yes

  [Stefan Bader]

  * Enabled CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y for sparc.
    - LP: #176587
  * Enable CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y.
    - LP: #140784
  * Added CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL=y to custom lpia(compat)
  * Enabled CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y for i386/server amd64/server and ia64.
  * Lower priority of pnpacpi resource messages to warning level.
    - LP: #159241
  * Fix the messed up message level of pnpacpi parser.

  [Tim Gardner]

  * Start new release, bump ABI to -5
  * Disabled iwlwifi preperatory to moving it to l-u-m.
  * Enabled CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN
  * Disabled CONFIG_CGROUPS.
  * Virtio config settings for -rt.
  * Re-enable IWLWIFI in the kernel.
  * Fixed -rt saa7134-core.c FTBS

  [Upstream Kernel Changes]

  * Input: Handle EV_PWR type of input caps in input_set_capability.
  * Input: jornada680_kbd - fix default keymap
  * increase PNP_MAX_PORT to 40 from 24
  * sched: fix gcc warnings
  * leds: Fix leds_list_lock locking issues
  * leds: Fix locomo LED driver oops
  * x86: fix asm-x86/byteorder.h for userspace export
  * x86: fix asm-x86/msr.h for user-space export
  * ACPI: EC: Enable boot EC before bus_scan
  * ACPI: Make sysfs interface in ACPI power optional.
  * fix lguest rmmod "bad pgd"
  * slub: provide /proc/slabinfo
  * [POWERPC] Fix build failure on Cell when CONFIG_SPU_FS=y
  * slub: register slabinfo to procfs
  * [SCSI] scsi_sysfs: restore prep_fn when ULD is removed
  * Unify /proc/slabinfo configuration
  * scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"
  * restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can
    ptrace pid
  * Fix kernel/ptrace.c compile problem (missing "may_attach()")
  * hwmon: (w83627ehf) Be more careful when changing VID input level
  * NFS: Fix a possible Oops in fs/nfs/super.c
  * NFSv4: Fix circular locking dependency in nfs4_kill_renewd
  * NFS: add newline to kernel warning message in auth_gss code
  * NFSv4: nfs4_open_confirm must not set the open_owner as confirmed on
    error
  * NFSv4: Fix open_to_lock_owner sequenceid allocation...
  * gameport: don't export functions that are static inline
  * Input: spitzkbd - fix suspend key handling
  * Input: pass EV_PWR events to event handlers
  * [ARM] 4735/1: Unbreak pxa25x suspend/resume
  * IB/srp: Fix list corruption/oops on module reload
  * Console is utf-8 by default
  * [IA64] Update Altix BTE error return status patch
  * [IA64] Update Altix nofault code
  * [X25]: Add missing x25_neigh_put
  * [XFRM]: Do not define km_migrate() if !CONFIG_XFRM_MIGRATE
  * [CASSINI]: Fix endianness bug.
  * [CASSINI]: Revert 'dont touch page_count'.
  * [CASSINI]: Program parent Inte...