From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Berck E. Nash" Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 AHCI ATA errors -- won't boot Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:22:33 -0600 Message-ID: <46FA6B29.3030807@gmail.com> References: <46F7FBCB.4030803@gmail.com> <46F9E2CB.9000002@garzik.org> <46FA2E84.90708@t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:56991 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760442AbXIZOWl (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:22:41 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so2803236wah for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:22:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46FA2E84.90708@t-online.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bernd Schmidt Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Bernd Schmidt wrote: > One of these appears in my system as well (ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe > mainboard). Here's the hdparm output: Yup, same mainboard here. > Since about 2.6.17 or 2.6.18, it has been causing long delays while > booting: > ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x5) > ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) > ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) > ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata2.00: ATA-6: Config Disk, RGL10364, max UDMA/133 > ata2.00: 640 sectors, multi 1: LBA > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 And yup, same problem with the painful boot delays since 2.6.18. Tejun indicated that a fix would get merged with 2.6.23, but that didn't happen. Here's hoping something makes it into .24! Berck