In one of my new machines, I have a DVD+/-RW drive. There were no issues on January 8 and 9. But today, I'm getting
ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) errors at boot time. Excerpts of the journal concerning ata6: journalctl-9:Jan 08 11:23:19 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 54 journalctl-9:Jan 08 11:23:19 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-9:Jan 08 11:23:19 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-9:Jan 08 11:23:19 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-8:Jan 08 12:07:02 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 55 journalctl-8:Jan 08 12:07:02 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-8:Jan 08 12:07:02 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-8:Jan 08 12:07:02 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-7:Jan 08 12:51:28 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 54 journalctl-7:Jan 08 12:51:28 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-7:Jan 08 12:51:28 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-7:Jan 08 12:51:28 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-6:Jan 08 13:01:44 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 55 journalctl-6:Jan 08 13:01:44 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-6:Jan 08 13:01:44 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-6:Jan 08 13:01:44 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-5:Jan 08 13:25:26 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 54 journalctl-5:Jan 08 13:25:26 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-5:Jan 08 13:25:26 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-5:Jan 08 13:25:26 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-4:Jan 08 15:18:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 55 journalctl-4:Jan 08 15:18:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-4:Jan 08 15:18:10 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-4:Jan 08 15:18:10 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-3:Jan 09 10:18:31 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 54 journalctl-3:Jan 09 10:18:31 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-3:Jan 09 10:18:31 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-3:Jan 09 10:18:31 disset kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 55 journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: PLDS DVD+/-RW DU-8A5LH, 6D1M, max UDMA/133 journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6.00: disable device journalctl-2:Jan 12 16:29:55 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 55 journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-1:Jan 12 16:52:07 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0x88643000 port 0x88643380 irq 56 journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) journalctl-0:Jan 12 17:04:10 disset kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Note: journalctl-9, journalctl-8 and journalctl-0 correspond to a boot with the 6.5.0-5-amd64 kernel, and the others ones to a boot with the 6.6.9-amd64 kernel. So this does not seems to be related to the kernel version. Any idea? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)