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ata exception error

Asked by Srivatsa Kanchi R

I found the following ATA exception on my partitions when using eclipse. These have appeared recently. So I did a reformat of my home partition and swap partition. But again, when using eclipse, i see the below errors. Is this an indication of HDD problem on these partitions

[157154.000000] Adding 706544k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/7aa98c81-befb-4fff-9b4d-29a3a41843c2. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:706544k
[174799.124000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[174799.124000] ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x25)
[174799.124000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:40:19:49:f5/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 32768 in
[174799.124000] res 51/40:3c:1d:49:f5/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
[174799.148000] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 78140160, hpa_sectors = 78140160
[174799.172000] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 78140160, hpa_sectors = 78140160
[174799.172000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[174799.172000] ata1: EH complete
[174801.028000] SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
[174801.028000] sda: Write Protect is off
[174801.028000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[174801.028000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

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Linux sarvothma 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#1

I've just googled a bit but it seems your disk may be in a bad shape. I would test it with a smartmontools or something else and see if it's ok.

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Pennywise (jens4444-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Hello, I'm new on launchpad. I write from Germany and use Kubuntu 7.10. I have the
same problems.
Absolutly no prolems with using PCLinuxOS Kernel 2.6.18 or Kubuntu Edgy 6.10 on
my system, but using Kubuntu Feisty Kernel 2.6.20 or Kubuntu Gutsy Kernel 2.6.22
show the problems above.
Trying to boot the Live-CD for installing the OS ends in the busybox after
showing this Sata-Problems. When I Plug off my Sata.Drives, there is no
positive effect on this problem-->Sata Controller!! I use an Asrock Board
ConRoe1333-D667. Kernel 18 works up from 20 the problems occured?!

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