https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332804 Summary: Booting is very slow due to ATA timeouts and exceptions Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mce@scarlet.be QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Other Booting my HP/Compaq nx9010 in 10.3 is very slow due to a series of ATA timeouts and exceptions. This did not occur in 10.1 or 10.2. The first batch goes like this: .. scsi0 : pata_ali scsi1 : pata_ali ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00012040 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00012048 irq 15 Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2. Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23EA-40, 00K3A0A3, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 78140160 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4241N, 0C29, max MWDMA2 ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HITACHI_DK23EA-4 00K3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: limiting speed to MWDMA1:PIO4 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata2: EH complete .. Booting then continues at normal speed for a while, until a second batch shows up: .. sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data 128 in res 40/00:03:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data 128 in res 40/00:03:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data 128 in res 40/00:03:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data 128 in res 40/00:03:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata2: EH complete -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.