ATA2 error messages during boot (non-fatal). How to fix?

PTrenholme · 10-24-2008, 06:51 PM

I add a new Hitachi drive to my laptop as a second drive, and I've got a couple problems with it, neither fatal, but I've not been able to figure out any resolution.

First: My hardware

HP dv9708us
ADM Turion 64-bit dual processor
3Gb RAM
Fujitsu 160 Gb SATA drive (sda)
Hitatchi 320 Gb SATA drive (sdb)
nVidia sound and video
Atheros wireless G (ATH_PCI driver - ATH5 still fails on this hardware)

Now, my (non-fatal) problems. (Both, I think, from the same root cause.)

1) GRUB can't boot from the Hitachi drive. It times out trying to read the drive.

2) When I boot Fedora 9 on sdb from sda, I get the following errors:

Code:

$ dmesg | grep ata2
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf6484000 port 0xf6484180 irq 23
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)              
ata2.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS543232L9A300, FB4OC40C, max UDMA/133     
ata2.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)        
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133                                    
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error                   
ata2: SError: { 10B8B Dispar }                                        
ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:e1:20:06/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in    
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }                                             
ata2: hard resetting link                                                       
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)                          
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133                                                
ata2: EH complete                                                               
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x6 frozen          
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error                             
ata2: SError: { 10B8B Dispar }                                                  
ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:e1:20:06/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in              
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }                                                       
ata2: hard resetting link                                                       
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)                          
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133                                                
ata2: EH complete
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
ata2: SError: { 10B8B Dispar }
ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:e1:20:06/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
ata2: hard resetting link
ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata2: EH complete
ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000001, interface fatal error
ata2: SError: { 10B8B Dispar }
ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:e1:20:06/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
ata2: hard resetting link
ata2: SATA link up <unknown> (SStatus 103 SControl 310)
ata2.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x100)
ata2.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling
ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata2: hard resetting link
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x1 t4
ata2: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata2: EH complete

Then the system runs with no further problems. (In fact, I'm using it to start this thread.)

Any suggestions welcomed.