As this seems more active, I crosspost from here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/137470/comments/26



Hi all,

I need to disappoint some of you:
Dell Vostro 1700 with a Seagate ST980813ASG

Suggested fix in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingUbuntuOnADellVostro1700 was to turn off NCQ by piping "1" into /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth

I did this.

Also I upgraded to 2.6.24 as explained here: http://axebase.net/blog/?p=178 (uses a script "hardy.py")
> uname -a
> Linux vostroxx 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

The problem first occurred to be gone but after about half an hour of working it appeared again (see below). 

What should I do now? I remember to see a patch where NCQ was turned off for ST980813AS in the kernel 2.6.24. But I do have a "ST980813ASG" (note the appended "G"). But then, I have turned off NCQ anyway by piping "1" into /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth, didn't I?

Do I (and others) experience a wholly different problem here?

<--- snip from /var/log/dmesg --->
[ 1866.716836] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout)
[ 1866.716857] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 1867.352238] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
[ 1867.867169] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 1867.917645] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1867.919637] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 1867.919665] ata3: EH complete
[ 1868.035436] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 1868.035580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1868.038246] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2371.992310] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout)
[ 2371.992338] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2372.630043] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
[ 2373.098527] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2373.142150] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2373.144818] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2373.144845] ata3: EH complete
[ 2373.145047] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 2373.145089] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2373.145248] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2398.484827] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout)
[ 2398.484859] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2401.190281] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
[ 2403.768282] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2404.092050] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2404.094618] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2404.094636] ata3: EH complete
[ 2404.094818] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 2404.094859] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2404.095068] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2558.474374] res 50/00:00:5e:32:04/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)
[ 2558.474405] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2559.612860] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
[ 2560.043102] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2560.086261] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2560.088424] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2560.088451] ata3: EH complete
[ 2560.104320] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 2560.104380] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2560.107262] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2606.114442] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[ 2606.114489] res 40/00:00:5e:32:04/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x44 (timeout)
[ 2606.114520] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2606.684975] ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
[ 2607.209738] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 2607.309510] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[ 2607.312180] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2607.312209] ata3: EH complete
[ 2607.312724] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 2607.313137] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2607.331068] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
<--- snap from /var/log/dmesg --->

TIA
Andre