Syslog Spam because faulty DVD Drive.

[HellDragon]

I have one question about syslog. My DVD drive is faulty. It failed about 7 months after i buyed this notebook and it didnt showed up in Windows at the time however you can open it and insert a cd and it will spin up but it wont get detected by windows or linux. I never paid attention to this error since im using linux but as i opend up syslog Now in Linux when i open a tty terminal i get spammed with the following

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Feb 16 15:27:02 DragonOS kernel: [ 8655.297095] ata1: SError: { CommWake DevExch }
Feb 16 15:27:02 DragonOS kernel: [ 8655.297101] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Feb 16 15:27:02 DragonOS kernel: [ 8655.297103] ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.520727] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.520735] ata1: EH complete
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.521038] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.521040] ata1: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.521042] ata1: SError: { CommWake DevExch }
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.521046] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Feb 16 15:27:04 DragonOS kernel: [ 8657.521048] ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.748786] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.748793] ata1: EH complete
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.749408] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.749408] ata1: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.749410] ata1: SError: { CommWake DevExch }
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.749413] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Feb 16 15:27:06 DragonOS kernel: [ 8659.749414] ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 16 15:27:08 DragonOS kernel: [ 8661.976848] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
Feb 16 15:27:08 DragonOS kernel: [ 8661.976856] ata1: EH complete
Feb 16 15:27:08 DragonOS kernel: [ 8661.976880] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen
Feb 16 15:27:08 DragonOS kernel: [ 8661.976881] ata1: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed

Either the sata cable is faulty or its another error. i can disable it with

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sudo dmesg -n 1

but it wont stop the syslog spam. Is there a way to disable it in the syslog also ? i tried the following command but they dont appear to have an effect

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set system syslog global facility protocols level info

[Joe2Shoe]

Either replace the DVD drive with a new drive, or just remove the defective drive. Either way, the errors should clear up.
I replaced a defective DVD drive last month with a new drive for $13.00.
Good luck.

[thx-1138]

...you could try coming up with a rsyslog filter to hide such - here's an example here in the forum to give you a basic idea:
viewtopic.php?p=1419860#p1419860
Eg. something among the lines of...
:msg, contains, "exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen" ~

Removing the faulty drive in the first place would probably be better of course (some BIOSes also have the ability to turn them off completely, you might wanna check that as well)...

[HellDragon]

Okay i pulled the drive out and tried to replace it with another one but its the same error. it dissapears when i remove the drive. i think the sata controller of the laptops mainboard is faulty :/ dont know how and if i can fix that

[Termy]

Have you looked into the BIOS at all? Perhaps it's misconfigured. Unlikely, since it's a laptop though, and laptops typically have lackluster BIOS options, but it's worth a look.

[Joe2Shoe]

It's almost impossible to fix a mobo controller. Replacing the mobo would work. I have a Lite-ON external USB DVDRW+_ drive just for such occasions, when all else fails (about $15.00 via newegg).