On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:12 -0400, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > Running the latest rawhide, I'm getting the following message after the RedHat Nash but before the LVM checks for physical volumes. I have quiet turned out, but I could turn it off to find out exactly where in the kernel load this is happening: > > ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) > > It doesn't seem to cause any problems after the machine has booted, but it takes 4 of these messages before it times out and each one takes quite a few seconds resulting in a significant pause in the boot process. > > I'm guessing this is known. Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot? > > Thanks, > Brian Here's the pertinent (I think) parts from logs without the 'quiet' argument: May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO3 May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) May 20 17:46:36 xyz kernel: ata2.00: disabled May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: ata2.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40) May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33 May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA IC35L080AVVA07-0 VA4O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 6Y120P0 YAR4 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sdb: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB) May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sdb: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB) May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sdb: sdb1 May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sdb May 20 17:46:37 xyz kernel: scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D 1.09 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
