Hard resetting link, limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps

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Lenovo G500 laptop, Debian Jessie 8.7 Here is my dmesg output:

[22957.061286] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[22957.061294] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[22957.061297] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[22957.061308] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[22957.061313] ata3: hard resetting link
[22957.784297] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[22957.784314] ata3: EH complete
[22957.784516] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[22957.784523] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[22957.784526] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[22957.784537] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[22957.784541] ata3: hard resetting link
[22958.508901] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[22958.508918] ata3: EH complete
[22958.518360] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[22958.518368] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[22958.518371] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[22958.518382] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[22958.518387] ata3: hard resetting link
[22959.241529] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[22959.241545] ata3: EH complete
[22959.241579] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[22959.241582] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[22959.241585] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[22959.241594] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[22959.241597] ata3: hard resetting link
[22959.966135] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[22959.966153] ata3: EH complete
[22959.975493] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[22959.975500] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[22959.975504] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[22959.975515] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[22959.975520] ata3: hard resetting link
[22960.698757] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[22960.698776] ata3: EH complete
[22960.709293] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
[22960.709300] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
[22960.709304] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[22960.709315] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[22960.709319] ata3: hard resetting link

I get this message every second. Can someone exactly say what is the problem for this error codes?

sata
asked on Server Fault Mar 6, 2017 by cottonjoe

1 Answer

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This is caused by a faulty cable. I had the same issue, replaced the SATA cable and the error disappeared.

answered on Server Fault Sep 26, 2020 by Stepan Stepanov • edited Sep 26, 2020 by Dave M

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