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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
