I'm getting similar errors in an Atom powered DIY machine w/4 cores. 2GB RAM with a 1TB hdd. (I used to have 2 TB but removed 1 drive when the errors were compounded):
[58854.080065] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [58854.080207] ata4.00: failed command: FLUSH CACHE EXT [58854.080307] ata4.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 [58854.080310] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [58854.080545] ata4.00: status: { DRDY } [58859.120033] ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [58864.100033] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset [58864.100047] ata4: soft resetting link [58869.300032] ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [58874.162534] ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) [58874.162623] ata4: soft resetting link [58879.370033] ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [58884.170033] ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) [58884.170122] ata4: soft resetting link [58889.382532] ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [58893.980420] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 [58893.980430] ata4.00: retrying FLUSH 0xea Emask 0x4 [58893.980632] ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [58893.980655] ata4: EH complete Seems like a power to the drive issue when the machine is kind of idle for a while. It isn't a notebook computer, but maybe Ubuntu thinks it is because of the Atom processor? What other information can I provide to help troubleshoot? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383632 Title: AHCI Hard Drive constantly erroring -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs