On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:14 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I started using the min_power ALPM setting on my ThinkPad to save power > > (which works great, thanks!) but it causes a small problem. When the > > machine resumes from suspend-to-ram it hangs for about 10s and then > > prints this on the console: > > > > ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) > > > > It then proceeds normally. The full messages are: > > > > ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > > ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > > ata1: soft resetting link > > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 611 SControl 300) > > ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > > ata1: hard resetting link > > ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) > > ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) > > ata1: hard resetting link > > ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > > Can you enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME in your kernel? Output follows ... > It sounds like the ahci driver is having problems spinning up > the disk after putting it into a "low power state" (which I > have no clue might be). Getting more accurate time > stamps might be a useful additional clue. The disk is an SSD so there's no need for delay to allow it to spin up. Here are the messages from a normal resume, pipe grep ata: [ 0.699797] ata5: port disabled. ignoring. [ 2.028774] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 2.028792] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) [ 2.192670] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 2.193535] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 2.193537] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 filtered out [ 2.194998] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 2.195381] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 2.209049] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 2.209051] ata1: EH complete And here are the messages on a slow resume: [ 0.700191] ata5: port disabled. ignoring. [ 2.029795] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) [ 2.029814] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 2.193770] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 2.194631] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 2.194634] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 filtered out [ 2.196161] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 2.196545] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 2.197289] ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs [ 3.644507] ata1: soft resetting link [ 3.644518] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 611 SControl 300) [ 3.644530] ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs [ 4.430864] ata1: hard resetting link [ 5.298009] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) [ 6.010843] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) [ 6.010847] ata1: hard resetting link [ 6.085653] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 6.086267] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 6.086269] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 filtered out [ 6.086380] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 6.087124] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/02:00:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 6.087128] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 filtered out [ 6.087350] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 succeeded [ 6.087550] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 6.088119] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 6.088122] ata1: EH complete I don't know how accurate these times are supposed to be. On my wallclock it takes substantially more than 6 seconds. -jwb -- 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