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From: Alan Warren <bluemoonshine@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ata errors on startup (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:05:35
Message-Id: 20110306070404.GA13111@gentoo
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ata errors on startup (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) by Alan Warren
1 I was able to stop the errors by disabling the Marvell
2 controller from within my bios.
3
4 Thanks,
5 Alan
6
7 On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:45:33PM -0600, Alan Warren wrote:
8 > Hello,
9 > I've recently made a few changes to my machine, and one of the
10 > unfortunate side effects is
11 > the following error.
12 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 7.396912] ata14.00: qc timeout
13 > (cmd 0xa1)
14 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 7.398906] ata14.00: failed to
15 > IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
16 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 7.706463] ata14: SATA link up
17 > 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
18 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 17.691838] ata14.00: qc timeout
19 > (cmd 0xa1)
20 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 17.742749] ata14.00: failed to
21 > IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
22 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 17.792643] ata14: limiting SATA
23 > link speed to 1.5 Gbps
24 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 18.098235] ata14: SATA link up
25 > 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
26 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 48.103265] ata14.00: qc timeout
27 > (cmd 0xa1)
28 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 48.154184] ata14.00: failed to
29 > IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
30 > Mar 5 17:15:32 localhost kernel: [ 48.509669] ata14: SATA link up
31 > 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
32 > This causes my boot to pause while the kernel probes ports, which I'm
33 > fairly confident do not exist. I have x5
34 > sata devices attached to my computer. They are all reported, and work
35 > great. I'm not sure where it's getting
36 > "ata14 from".
37 > I recently RMA'd my motherboard, and one of the first side effects I
38 > noticed was my ethernet (eth0) was
39 > completely missing. Through google, I found out udev had written the
40 > old device info from my previous motherboard
41 > in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Simply deleting this
42 > file and rebooting fixed that.
43 > Is it possible something very similar is going on here, but with my
44 > ata devices?
45 > I also swapped out a few disks today. I dropped an old raid0 in favor
46 > of an ssd, but everything went fine
47 > as far as I can tell. I'm not positive, but I think this error existed
48 > before I did this.
49 > Thanks for your time,
50 > Alan