esata on Linux Mint 12 Live (Kernel 3.0.0)

[  301.436516] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050002 action 0xe frozen
[  301.436526] ata6: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed
[  301.436534] ata6: SError: { RecovComm PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch }
[  301.436547] ata6: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[  301.436555] ata6: hard resetting link
[  305.016122] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[  305.026129] ata6.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[  305.026139] ata6.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[  305.026148] ata6.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out
[  305.036031] ata6.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HM500JI, 2AC101C4, max UDMA/133
[  305.036039] ata6.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[  305.046083] ata6.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[  305.046092] ata6.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[  305.046100] ata6.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out
[  305.055967] ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133
[  305.072096] ata6: EH complete
[  305.072292] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG HM500JI  2AC1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[  305.072686] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  305.072858] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[  305.072996] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[  305.073003] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[  305.073063] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  305.114466]  sdc: sdc1
[  305.115002] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[  348.708319] EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
[  348.725970] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[  348.726301] EXT3-fs (sdc1): using internal journal
[  348.726307] EXT3-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode