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yuvadm

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From: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

Registered: 2012-08-08

Posts: 102

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ATA disk stalls boot process for 10 seconds

I just attached an old hard disk I had lying around to my desktop. It's connected via standard IDE and shows up as /dev/sda (and I had to switch my boot process to look for my main HD as /dev/sdb).

However, this HD stalls my boot process for more than 10 seconds with these errors:

[    1.882734] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[    1.882776] ata1.01: BMDMA stat 0x65
[    1.882814] ata1.01: failed command: READ DMA
[    1.882856] ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:30:f0:50/00:00:00:00:00/f9 tag 0 dma 4096 in
         res d0/d0:d0:d0:d0:d0/00:00:00:00:00/d0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[    1.882924] ata1.01: status: { Busy }
[    1.882961] ata1.01: error: { ICRC UNC IDNF }
[    2.300090] Switched to clocksource tsc
[    6.893367] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   11.906699] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[   11.906710] ata1: soft resetting link
[   12.087257] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
[   12.094019] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100
[   12.099962] ata1: EH complete
[   12.165720] ata1: drained 4096 bytes to clear DRQ
[   12.169636] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[   12.169679] ata1.01: BMDMA stat 0x65
[   12.169717] ata1.01: failed command: READ DMA
[   12.169758] ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:90:ed:50/00:00:00:00:00/f9 tag 0 dma 4096 in
         res d0/d0:d0:d0:d0:d0/00:00:00:00:00/d0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
[   12.169826] ata1.01: status: { Busy }
[   12.169863] ata1.01: error: { ICRC UNC IDNF }
[   17.180033] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   22.193365] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[   22.193375] ata1: soft resetting link
[   22.374018] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
[   22.380676] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100
[   22.387534] ata1: EH complete

After that, the boot process continues normally, and /dev/sda is available for me to use.

Any idea how I can fix this problem?

qinohe

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2012-06-20

Posts: 1,494

Re: ATA disk stalls boot process for 10 seconds

Well I don't know if this is gonna help you, but, on the backside off your drive you can place a jumper for master slave etc.
Try switching the jumper to master, cable select or none, if this is unsuccessful, you could try swap the IDE channel for the disk, be sure all cables are well connected .
If after trying this it still no progress, maybe your disk is slowly dying on you.