# SATA link down

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/sata-link-down/32134>\
**Category:** SLES Hardware\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sata-link-down/32134 "2018-03-14T10:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![astra\_amit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@astra\_amit](https://forums.suse.com/u/astra_amit)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sata-link-down/32134/1 "2018-03-14T10:27:36Z")

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Hi Experts,

I am recently started to see the following messages in /var/log/messages and this is only printed whenever the server boots up after reboot. This is a production node and things are working pretty fine. Not sure why suddenly this log started to print after server reboots…

SUSe version  
NAME=“SLES”  
VERSION=“12”  
VERSION\_ID=“12”  
PRETTY\_NAME=“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12”  
ID=“sles”  
ANSI\_COLOR=“0;32”  
CPE\_NAME=“cpe:/o:suse:sles:12”

proNode:/var/log # grep -i SATA messages-20180216  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582349-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.932764] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA mode  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582357-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.975786] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfabd8000 port 0xfabd8100 irq 74  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582358-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.975792] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfabd8000 port 0xfabd8180 irq 75  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582359-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.975800] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfabd8000 port 0xfabd8200 irq 76  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582359-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.975806] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfabd8000 port 0xfabd8280 irq 77  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582360-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.975813] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfabd8000 port 0xfabd8300 irq 78  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582437-05:00 proNode kernel: [18.975819] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xfabd8000 port 0xfabd8380 irq 79  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582467-05:00 proNode kernel: [19.294378] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582474-05:00 proNode kernel: [19.614199] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582475-05:00 proNode kernel: [19.934022] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582487-05:00 proNode kernel: [20.253799] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582487-05:00 proNode kernel: [20.573669] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)  
2018-02-15T03:37:59.582488-05:00 proNode kernel: [20.893492] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)  
akron-supl-chassis-0-gmpc-0:/var/log # cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted  
0

Any insight will be really helpful. Thanks in advance!

Br,  
Amit

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**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sata-link-down/32134/2 "2018-03-19T06:30:20Z")

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sata-link-down/32134/3 "2018-03-22T19:07:01Z")

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Hi Amit,

is there anything attached to those SATA ports? If not, “link down” seems reasonable.

Have these messages only recently appeared on reboot on this server, without any other change? Or have you just stumbled across them and wonder what it’s about?

Regards,  
J
