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#1 2008-07-31 14:08:06

tntcoda
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Registered: 2007-07-24
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ATA Emask timeouts

Hi,

Im trying to install arch x64, with sata hdd & cdrom, i have never had problems installing it in the past.

When loading arch live, i get about 20mins of repated Emask timeouts, this kind of thing:

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data 64 in
         res 40/00:02:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

Then once that finishes, i get a kernel panic after:

Failed to mount /dev/cd/*
Cannot find booted cdrom device


The media is definatly good, any ideas what could cause this? Ive intalled arch on this box several times over the last year, and the latest ISOs cause this.
Hardware: Abit IP35 Pro & Intel Q6600 CPU

Thanks,

Jack

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#2 2009-02-08 23:22:47

Cleophas
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

bump...

I am having the exact same problem here. ata7 frozen etc etc errors over and over again when trying to run the /arch/setup installer.

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#3 2009-02-08 23:36:56

Ashren
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Registered: 2007-06-13
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

Been having these problems on a Dell Dimension 830 with a Samsund DVD R/W drive and they never got resolved. I think it is a fault with the ata_piix module.

The only workaround I can live with was to disable the cdrom module altogether  (and thereby not being able use the drive at all) in order to use sata/pata on this dell.

Post your bugs to the ata_piix developers.

See this thread and the links within it:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43097

Cleophas: Try booting with the legacy option when installing.

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#4 2009-02-09 01:39:14

Cleophas
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

If I disable the modules that run the DVD R/W how can I install?  For some lame reason my Abit AB9 QuadGT will not boot from a USB.  I have done some searching and this seems to be impacting a significant number of people.  How can that be and this not have a fix?

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#5 2009-02-09 11:27:20

Ashren
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

Ashren wrote:

Cleophas: Try booting with the legacy option when installing.

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#6 2009-02-09 12:34:25

Cleophas
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

Will do. Thanks!  Will I lose any features/speed installing this way?  Or is it just a matter of that being what it takes to get installed then afterward I can just disable the dvd r/w drive, which is causing the errors, until this issue can be fixed/figured out?

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#7 2009-02-09 13:48:07

Ashren
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

It's been a while since I installed using legacy, but I think your drives will be named hd* in /dev since ithe IDE driver is being used. So yes you'll not be using the SATA modules, but this can be tweaked/changed afterwards. Actually I'm not even sure the legacy option exists with new ISO's, if not try using one of the older ones.

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#8 2009-02-10 14:26:25

Cleophas
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Re: ATA Emask timeouts

Well, I strongly suspected that this problem was related to the onboard JMicron IDE controller.  I remembered it had all kinds of issues when my motherboard first came out.  So I dug out a Promise PCI IDE card I had from way back in 2003, rare time the hoarding all my old hardware actually paid off wink  And sure enough when I switched the DVD/RW to using that IDE card and disabled the onboard JMicron controller Arch Installer and the subsequent Arch system worked perfectly!

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