Weird message in syslog

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Under the past few days, i get some weird logs that completely filling my syslog, it repeats every few seconds. Does anyone have an idea as to what this means?


Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x50011
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: cmd ca/00:10:42:8e:5b/00:00:00:00:00/eb tag 0 dma 8192 out
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel:          res 51/04:10:42:8e:5b/00:00:10:00:00/eb Emask 0x1 (device error)
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: error: { ABRT }
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2: EH complete
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

The system droops periodically, it is sometimes impossible to reboot her - file system is not accessible.

Thanks for you support.

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What sort of CDROM and HD do you have? IDE CDROM and SATA disk?

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xcafebabe wrote:
> Under the past few days, i get some weird logs that completely filling
> my syslog, it repeats every few seconds. Does anyone have an idea as to
> what this means?
>
>
> Code:
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> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x50011
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: cmd ca/00:10:42:8e:5b/00:00:00:00:00/eb tag 0 dma 8192 out
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: res 51/04:10:42:8e:5b/00:00:10:00:00/eb Emask 0x1 (device error)
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: error: { ABRT }
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: ata2: EH complete
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> Mar 19 21:56:23 shinji kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
>
> --------------------
>
>
> The system droops periodically, it is sometimes impossible to reboot
> her - file system is not accessible.

Your hard drive is failing. Back up all documents and data ASAP.

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

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Exactly…

but I’ve been using opensuse 11.1 for almost 3 months and had not seen these messages until just days ago…

Maybe AndreasStieger is right… i will try to backup all my stuff

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Those messages seem to indicate a faulty CD/DVD drive. Try disconnecting it. Or it could be worse, your motherboard interfaces dying.

But yes, backup your data first.

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Now you mention about de CD/DVD drive, checking the date of logs when began to fail, i remembered that in the same day I was with a friend trying out some nvidia cards on my motherboard. I will shut down my pc and open it to verify that everything is connected properly …

I will report if something is loose on my pc.

Really, thank you very much,

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Indeed!!, the message in message.log no longer appears. Just unplug and plug again all the cables on my pc and the message disappeared.

Thank you very much for the support guys.