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jaale

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From: Freiburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 4

System hangs during boot (SATA softreset failed, exception)

Ever since I installed Arch on my machine, it keeps hanging during boot while showing me errors that seem to be related to the CD drive. This never happened while running Ubuntu, so I guess this is a configuration issue. However, I was not able to find a solution that worked for me. I already tried to disable AHCI but it didn't change anything.

Any idea what is wrong here and how I can fix it? This causes a delay of about 20 seconds at boot, so it is kind of annoying. My machine has a AMD SB600 controller.

Below is the relevant output of dmesg, Arch is showing me the part at 33.x during startup.

...
[    1.373367] ata2: softreset failed (device not ready)
[    1.374072] ata2: applying PMP SRST workaround and retrying
[    1.374101] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)
[    1.374802] ata1: applying PMP SRST workaround and retrying
[    1.376698] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[    1.540046] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    1.540086] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
...
[   33.360032] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[   33.361009] ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
[   33.361777] ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
         res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[   33.363748] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[   33.364254] ata2: hard resetting link
[   33.850021] ata2: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   33.850723] ata2: applying PMP SRST workaround and retrying
[   34.016695] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   34.018350] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[   34.819482] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
...
[   66.400034] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[   66.401012] ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
[   66.401779] ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
         res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[   66.403769] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[   66.404290] ata2: hard resetting link
[   66.745821] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
[   66.788155] systemd-udevd[119]: starting version 204
[   66.890027] ata2: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   66.890750] ata2: applying PMP SRST workaround and retrying
[   67.056705] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   67.058338] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
...
[   90.123401] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[   90.123418] ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
[   90.123433] ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
         res 50/00:03:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[   90.123440] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[   90.123451] ata2: hard resetting link
[   90.610035] ata2: softreset failed (device not ready)
[   90.610050] ata2: applying PMP SRST workaround and retrying
[   90.776737] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   90.778435] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[   91.579664] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
...