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con

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sata problems, slow booting

Hi,

we gotta fujitsu-siemens desktop at work running arch and were having some problems booting the machine. The computer works fine after it has booted but booting takes a very long time. This is the error msg were getting

ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata4: EH complete
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x800 action 0x2
ata4.00: (irq_stat 0x40000001)
ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x25 data 8 in
         res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
ata4: soft resetting port

ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata4: EH complete

The sata controller, output from lspci

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA

Boots fine if booted from the install-cd, so I guess were missing some kernel boot-time parameters or sumtin'.

Thanks for any help.

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lilsirecho

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Re: sata problems, slow booting

Many problems lately are due to using older install CD's which don't have all the needed mkinit params.

Check the forums for the fixes. 

Most recommend using the 0.8 install to avoid the hassles.

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con

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Re: sata problems, slow booting

Thanks for your reply!
I'm pretty sure we used the 0.8 install cd since the 0.7.2 one work at all...incase I didnt make clear in my previous post, we dont get any error msgs when booting from the cd

Last edited by con (2007-03-15 21:45:09)

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Pierre

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Re: sata problems, slow booting

I have got a similar output on my server with intel-chipset:

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: cmd 35/00:00:cf:26:4e/00:04:05:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 524288 out
         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1: EH complete
SCSI device sda: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

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Re: sata problems, slow booting

Just throwing out an idea here: could it be you're using SATA2 harddrives on SATA1 controllers? I know both my SATA2 drives have some jumper to force them into SATA1 mode, though I've used one of them just fine on a SATA1 motherboard without the jumper.

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Pierre

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Re: sata problems, slow booting

I am using pata. ;-)

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test1000

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Re: sata problems, slow booting

maybe if you switch the new drivers 'pata' with 'ide'.

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