Hi all I have a problem with my Intel SR1550 server (S5000PAL motheboard, SATA/SAS controller, 5 SATA HDD Seagate ST9120822AS ). The four drivers are in two md raid1, which striping by lvm and one drive used separately. I have problem like below with two different drives (ata3 or ata4) and ata5. I look problem like this with RedHat 2.6.18-53 kernel, 2.6.24-rc8, and today 2.6.24-git5. I reading about any problems like this in lkml.org. There can be this message will help to fix this issue. The complete dmesg in attachment. md: bind RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:1 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdc1 disk 1, wo:1, o:1, dev:sdd1 md: recovery of RAID array md2 md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for recovery. md: using 128k window, over a total of 117218176 blocks. ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata4.00: cmd e7/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata4.00: status: { DRDY } ata4: hard resetting link ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) ata4: hard resetting link ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) ata4: hard resetting link ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata4: hard resetting link ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) ata4: reset failed, giving up ata4.00: disabled ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 234436415 md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0 raid1: Disk failure on sdd1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 1 devices sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1764415 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1765439 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1766463 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1767487 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1767615 md: md2: recovery done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:1 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdc1 disk 1, wo:1, o:0, dev:sdd1