dmesg error

**cosy2** · January 2nd, 2020

Code:

64478.725566] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x480900 action 0x6 frozen
[64478.725578] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
[64478.725586] ata1: SError: { UnrecovData HostInt 10B8B Handshk }
[64478.725594] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT
[64478.725607] ata1.00: cmd 35/00:00:20:4e:46/00:0a:0a:00:00/e0 tag 12 dma 1310720 out
                        res 50/00:80:00:50:28/00:00:00:00:00/ea Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)
[64478.725618] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }

so based off this https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...rrors-in-dmesg i got a loss/damaged cable ?

**SeijiSensei** · January 2nd, 2020

A bad cable would be the good news. I suspect it could also indicate a problem with the disk itself.

**Yellow Pasque** · January 2nd, 2020

Could we see the SMART data on the drive in question?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools

**cosy2** · January 2nd, 2020

bad news cable is OK

ssd is dead while i did try to move files with rsync it did die on me

edit: placing this ssd on other machine works and i can move files