On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 09:49:27PM -0400, Marc Dionne wrote: > Since somewhere early in the 2.6.35 merge window I've been seeing a hang > during boot. The hang last roughly 30 seconds and is followed by this: > > ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED > ata4.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata4.00: status: { DRDY } > ata4: hard resetting link > ahci_is_device_present: status is: 80 > ahci_is_device_present: status(2) is: 3 > ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 > ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 > ata4: EH complete > > The system works normally once booted. I had some time to do a bisect > today and it cleanly ended up pointing to this commit: > 96d60303fd: ahci: Turn off DMA engines when there's no device attached > > Reverting the commit makes the system boot cleanly as before. System has > an Intel ICH10 based board, in AHCI mode, disk is an Intel X25M SSD. Hm, interesting. Jeff, any immediate ideas? I don't see this behaviour on my ICH10. Is there actually a device on ata4? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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