Arch Linux

Psirus

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Registered: 2012-01-29

Posts: 45

Problem with IDE drive on boot

I've just installed Arch on my desktop after succesfully running it for a couple of months on the laptop. Most of the time, everything works well so far. However, every 5th boot or so (seems to be random), it has a problem with one of the harddrives. It sits at "Starting version 218" for a minute or two, before announcing

worker [68] /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.1/ata1/host0/target0:0:1:0/block/sda is taking a long time
worker [68] /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.1/ata1/host0/target0:0:1:0/block/sda timeout; kill it
seq 1048 `/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.1/ata1/host0/target0:0:1:0/block/sda` killed

and then the same thing again, only with sda1 instead of sda. Then there is another waiting time where it counts up to 1:30 min, showing

A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2duuid-D8AE4BBEAE4B93C2.device

In the end drops me into maintenance mode or whatever. If I reboot, everything is fine again, and it boots normally.

/dev/sda is an old ide drive one ntfs partition /dev/sda1. For completeness, grub and / ar on an ssd, /dev/sdb, and /home is on a raid1 of /dev/sdc and sdd. What can I do about this and how should I go about troubleshooting?