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tedajax

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Registered: 2012-05-14

Posts: 1

Repeating ata5: SRST failed (errno=-16) error and other oddities

So I'm doing a new install of Arch on my desktop and everything installs fine but during boot when the Triggering uevents... prompt comes up boot hangs for about 27 seconds (I know this from the timestamps on the errors) and I start to get a string of error messages like this:

[  27.627821] ata5: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[  32.615172] ata5.01 revalidation failed (errno=-5)

Eventually after about 3 minutes the system manages to boot, well not always sometimes it failed to locate /dev/sdb2 (my root partition) and I'm dropped into a rootfs shell and I have to reboot.

Anyway if everything successfully boots then I'm constantly bombarded with these error messages about every 30 seconds.  So the first thing I'd like to fix is at least getting these error messages to stop popping up because when you've only got the TTY to work with they become quite annoying.  Also of course the slow boot time and occasionally failing to find the root partition are problems I'd like to address as well.

Googling this particular error doesn't really seem to yield any helpful results as the problem can apparently be caused by a range of things.  However I hope that the nature of the repeating error messages helps narrow this down somewhat.

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Repeating ata5: SRST failed (errno=-16) error and other oddities

Get UBCD (google it, it's a live cd) and use a tool in there to check if your SMART diagnostic has been tripped.  Run at least a short test mode with some tool like, for example, Seagate tools (For Seagate/Maxtor drives) from UBCD's HDD Diagnosis tools.  I suggest this because the only time I've seen that set of errors is when a drive is about to fail and fall over then burst into flames.

pethead

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From: RU

Registered: 2015-02-25

Posts: 48

Re: Repeating ata5: SRST failed (errno=-16) error and other oddities

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WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 13,715

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Re: Repeating ata5: SRST failed (errno=-16) error and other oddities

Pethead, you have been warned about necrobumping before. Do not do it again.

Closing.

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