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Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

"ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

Hi Archers,
I recently set up an old computer with Arch (Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM, ATI 7600)

But when I boot on the Hard Disk, or even in Live CD I got theses errors messages:
ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)

Theses messages appear 5 or 6 times on each boot.

ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)

Here a screen:

I changed my hard drive with another, and done the same thing with optical player, but it didn't changed anything :S

If you can help me, thanks

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

No idea ?

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

Still have this problem
Anyone know how to fix it ?

TigTex

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 301

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

1st idea -> update your bios
2nd idea -> go to your bios and disable ata channel 2.
3rd idea -> is everything ok with ide channel 2?

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.::. TigTex @ Portugal .::.

DePingus

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From: Miami, Fl

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 44

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

I'm getting something similar on ata1.
Everything was fine until I upgraded my system last night. Waiting for this error message also doubles my boot time.

[depingus@kraken ~]$ dmesg | ata1
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x40c0 irq 14
ata1.00: ATAPI: Optiarc CD-RW CRX880A, KH16, max MWDMA2
ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:60:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 96 in
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2
ata1: EH complete
ata1.00: limiting speed to MWDMA1:PIO4
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:60:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 96 in
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1.00: both IDENTIFYs aborted, assuming NODEV
ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1.00: configured for MWDMA1
ata1: EH complete
ata1.00: limiting speed to PIO4
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:60:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 96 in
ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1.00: both IDENTIFYs aborted, assuming NODEV
ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1.00: configured for PIO4
ata1: EH complete

Last edited by DePingus (2010-06-25 20:36:21)

DePingus

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From: Miami, Fl

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 44

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

So I went into my bios to look around. I didn't really know what I was looking for, but while there I disabled the fingerprint scanner on my laptop. Everything seems good now!

An interesting note, in my first dmesg ata1 seems to be my CD drive. But now it seems to be my HDD.

[depingus@kraken ~]$ dmesg | grep ata1
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xe4809000 port 0xe4809100 irq 28
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
ata1.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:a0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
ata1.00: ACPI cmd c6/00:10:00:00:00:a0 (SET MULTIPLE MODE) succeeded
ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out
ata1.00: ATA-8: FUJITSU MHY2120BH, 890B, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
ata1.00: ACPI cmd b1/c1:00:00:00:00:a0 (DEVICE CONFIGURATION OVERLAY) filtered out
ata1.00: ACPI cmd c6/00:10:00:00:00:a0 (SET MULTIPLE MODE) succeeded
ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1: EH complete

Last edited by DePingus (2010-06-25 20:32:19)

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

In my case: I do not have a fingerprint scanner: it's a desktop and I my HDD and DVD Drive are in IDE (my mobo don't have sata port)

DePingus

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From: Miami, Fl

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 44

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

Crap. It's doing it again. This time on ata4 with the same optical drive (its a DVDR / CDRW). The drive never did seem to work in Ubuntu. I know it was working (I burned a disc in there) yesterday in Arch before the error, but its not working right now (can't even read a disc).

I think this drive may be faulty. It may have also given me problems with WindowsXP (but that was so long ago that I cant remember for sure). I've never had a problem booting from it though.

Sorry I couldn't be of much help. If I stumble across any useful info I'll post up.

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

Thank you DePingus: but I tried a different drive, and a different hdd, and in my case it changed nothing so... IDK

YAOMTC

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Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 204

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

This happens to me on my Eee PC 900. It has an SSD (not a particularly fast one, mind you, but it's no HDD). This really slows down the boot process... Anyone know what the deal is here?

ddffnn

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Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 5

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

I'm getting the same error, but it doesn't always occur on the same ata channel. Looking back, I've seen it on ata1,ata3, and ata5. I does not consistently happen, only during some boots.

ddffnn

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Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 5

Re: "ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient" during boot

I'm getting the same error, but it doesn't always occur on the same ata channel. Looking back, I've seen it on ata1,ata3, and ata5. I does not consistently happen, only during some boots.

I used to have two drives (floppy and optical) connected by PATA cables, but without power hooked up. Ever since I disconnected the PATA cables, I haven't seen these errors again.