Re: [opensuse] Re: boot time slowed by COMRESET errors on unconnected sata connectors

On Friday 07 May 2010 13:03:43 Arun Khan wrote:

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Arun Khan wrote:

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When I power up my desktop, it takes a while to boot. Upon hitting the ESC key, I see COMRESET messages on the screen for SATA ports that have no devices connected on them. The system eventually boots. Google search suggested some solutions like turning off ACPI, which I have tried to no avail.

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Solved! It was the damn SATA cable attached to the DVD writer; to add salt to injury it came bundled in the box with the Intel motherboard.

Replaced it with a no brand name cable and no COMRESET messages.

-- Arun Khan Hi .

I have a scrap SATA drive thanks to the cable connections being so poor 1TB of door stop am i amused i would say not .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 13:57 up 15 days 1:38, 3 users, load average: 0.29, 0.22, 0.18