Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 AHCI ATA errors -- won't boot

From: Berck E. Nash
Date: Wed Sep 26 2007 - 10:27:50 EST


Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> One of these appears in my system as well (ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe
> mainboard). Here's the hdparm output:

Yup, same mainboard here.

> Since about 2.6.17 or 2.6.18, it has been causing long delays while
> booting:
> ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
> ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x5)
> ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
> ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
> ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> ata2.00: ATA-6: Config Disk, RGL10364, max UDMA/133
> ata2.00: 640 sectors, multi 1: LBA
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133

And yup, same problem with the painful boot delays since 2.6.18. Tejun
indicated that a fix would get merged with 2.6.23, but that didn't
happen. Here's hoping something makes it into .24!

Berck
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