[olug] ata8 identification

[Brady Cox]

This would make my life easier also.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> My kern.log has been filling up with a bunch of these errors lately:
>
>
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112033] ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112038] ata8.00: failed command: FLUSH CACHE EXT
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112044] ata8.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112046]          res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112048] ata8.00: status: { DRDY }
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112053] ata8: hard resetting link
> Aug  1 22:02:36 tatooine kernel: [1393542.112055] ata8: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port
> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.580033] ata8: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692431] ata8.00: configured for UDMA/133
> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692437] ata8.00: retrying FLUSH 0xea Emask 0x4
> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692707] ata8.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
> Aug  1 22:02:37 tatooine kernel: [1393542.692717] ata8: EH complete
>
>
> How do I determine which of the 5 hard drives in my system is ata8?
> Ubuntu 11.04, BTW.  Disk Utility doesn't list an ATA number for any
> of the devices.  The SMART data for all 5 drives says they're OK.
>
> I've been experiencing a lot of unreliabilitiy in the system lately --
> processes like firefox or even doc apps dying spontaneously, etc.
> I'm wondering if one of my drives is getting flaky and causing that.
> However, I've got enough RAM that I almost never page, so I don't
> think it's an issue of my swap partitions going bad.
>
> --
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