Hi,
I have a new Linux machine with two DC S3610 1.6TB SSDs. It's Debian jessie so kernel 3.6.17. Since around one month after installation these errors started appearing:
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.249429] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.250465] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.251505] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:00:39:db:8e/00:00:09:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.251505] res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.253613] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.254781] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.255810] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:08:71:fc:4e/00:00:66:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 out
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.255810] res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.257940] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.259086] ata1: hard resetting link
Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.577366] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578307] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578310] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578311] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578316] ata1: EH complete
The error is always the same, and the only thing on ata1.00 is one of the SSDs. I switched the two SSDs around and the problem followed the same SSD.
I can't force the error to happen on demand, it just seems to happen every other day or so, though not at the same time of day. All IO is held up briefly while the link is reset. The drive passes a SMART long self-test.
So is this drive faulty? If not, what can I try to fix this? If so, is there an easy way to prove it for RMA purposes?
Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054376] ata1.00: ATA-9: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4, G2010110, max UDMA/133
Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054474] ata1.00: 3125627568 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054567] ata2.00: ATA-9: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4, G2010110, max UDMA/133
Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054657] ata2.00: 3125627568 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4
Serial Number: BTHC511604V41P6PGN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04b7b1bfa
Firmware Version: G2010110
User Capacity: 1,600,321,314,816 bytes [1.60 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Jul 31 11:04:09 2015 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4
Serial Number: BTHC511604SD1P6PGN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04b7b1ba2
Firmware Version: G2010110
User Capacity: 1,600,321,314,816 bytes [1.60 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Jul 31 11:04:35 2015 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled