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Cif

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Registered: 2005-06-30

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ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Hi all,
after upgrade to the latest kernel, my machine do not boot anymore. The problem is I get an error:

ata3.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40)

After this, the boot stuck looking for my 4 HDs which are shifted now from sda/sdb/sdc/sdd to sde/sdf/sdh/sdg. If I downgrade to kernel 4.1.3 the machine boot normally.

Any hints?

DarkCerberus

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From: Holsworthy, Devon

Registered: 2011-12-31

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Strange, what's your /etc/fstab - could you post this? Mine has no issues with kernel 4.1.4.....

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Cif

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Mine /etc/fstab

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
# UUID=4870038a-de57-4c73-8bfd-23ed4d62a004
#/dev/sde1           	/         	ext4      	rw,noatime,data=ordered	0 1
/dev/sda1           	/         	ext4      	rw,noatime,data=ordered	0 1

# UUID=eb3a9534-0e6c-4438-8221-ef39c49cd09e
/dev/sdc1           	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# UUID=941ca278-3f71-4991-b677-12565c1d7aa8
/dev/sdb1           	/media/blackhole	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# UUID=8bf8686a-86dd-4f9e-a87e-a6d81d589d8d
/dev/sdd1           	/media/universe	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

/dev/sde4		/media/galaxy	ext4		rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

DarkCerberus

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From: Holsworthy, Devon

Registered: 2011-12-31

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Hi - I think I know the problem were is the /boot section did you set it up separately on installation like mine:

 
# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
# UUID=f81645b3-8679-498c-9fb1-bd7e61ea5773
/dev/sdb2           	/         	btrfs     	rw,relatime,space_cache	0 0

# UUID=6D34-D824
/dev/sdb1           	/boot/efi 	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# UUID=f81645b3-8679-498c-9fb1-bd7e61ea5773
/dev/sdb2           	/home     	btrfs     	rw,relatime,space_cache	0 0

Don't copy mine since its an example but you need /boot in fstab... You may need to reset Arch Linux from scratch in order to do it properly...

Last edited by DarkCerberus (2015-08-16 11:30:19)

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Slithery

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

@DarkCerberus  -  That isn't correct. You don't need a seperate boot partition at all.

@Cif  -  Try specifying the partitions in your fstab using UUID's instead of device names, as device names are never guaranteed to stay the same between boots (as you've just found out).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ice_naming

Last edited by Slithery (2015-08-16 11:36:21)

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Cif

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

No, /boot it's in the same partition as the rest of the system. Everything worked fine till the kernel update so I think it's more related to something that changed in the kernel and it's causing problem to my ATA system

DarkCerberus

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From: Holsworthy, Devon

Registered: 2011-12-31

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Hmm, I did some googling have you got the updated linux-headers installed as indicated here http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=4137 - is this related to your issue.

Edit: Also try adding irqpoll to the bootloader in /etc/default/grub.cfg and re-generate it and restart this option seemed to have fixed it for other's in other linux forums don't know what it does though but use at your own risk.

Last edited by DarkCerberus (2015-08-16 11:42:42)

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Cif

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Thanks, I'll try to look at it and see, seems kernel related but in a different way and for a really old kernel, might be some regression maybe, I'll try to see how they did solved that

Cif

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Registered: 2005-06-30

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

After upgrading again to 4.1.4 I don't have the error and so the problem anymore. I think it's something related to transient file system errors which I continue to suffer and also to my awful ADSL which provide me with a lot of bad checksum... Thanks for your help

Cif

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Registered: 2005-06-30

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Re: ATA problem with kernel 4.1.4

Well, seems I was wrong, I didn't update to 4.1.4 but I was still in 4.1.3. Update to 4.1.5 also cause the problem so I'm still stuck, I'll try to dig into the problem and find out what this xfermode is.