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geek.arnuld

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From: INDIA

Registered: 2007-05-03

Posts: 135

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"abnormal status" in dmesg

this is from dmesg:

scsi2 : sata_via
ata3: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x000000000001e807
scsi3 : sata_via
ata4: SATA link down 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x000000000001e007
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)

why i am getting abnormal status. this is brand new IDE hard disk. i just did not add "lvm" to "/etc/mkintcpio" during the default build of fallback image during installation as i was not sure of what to do.

---------------"/etc/mkinitcpio" ----------

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata keymap filesystems"

------------- "fdisk -l" ------------------

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1825    14659281   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1826        2081     2056320   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            2082        9729    61432560    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2082        4514    19543041   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            4515        6947    19543041   83  Linux

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: "abnormal status" in dmesg

I get those messages too. For me it just means that there's nothing attached to my SATA ports (I have only PATA disks).

If you are having disk problems this isn't the reason.