Using XFCE. Occasionally activity stops for a short while. Not just over the Internet, local file activity. It has always started up again. My first thought was a failing drive, but it's less than a year old and I have tested it several times using smartctl and badblocks. It passes. I swapped the drive cable, and switched to a different on-board connector in case they were the problem.
Today I was able to catch an error as shown below. Could someone please explain what it means and whether it's time to trash the motherboard?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Today I was able to catch an error as shown below. Could someone please explain what it means and whether it's time to trash the motherboard?
Code:
[ 89.080055] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x1850000 action 0xe frozen
[ 89.080064] ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake LinkSeq TrStaTrns }
[ 89.080069] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT
[ 89.080079] ata3.00: cmd 25/00:80:48:81:62/00:00:16:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in
res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error)
[ 89.080082] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 89.080090] ata3: hard resetting link
[ 89.080093] ata3: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port
[ 89.952064] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 89.959807] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 89.959831] ata3: EH complete