well, after 2 hours running, I still get these: [ 6680.772000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 6680.772000] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x1e data 0 [ 6680.772000] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 6687.772000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) [ 6710.788000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) [ 6710.788000] ata1: soft resetting port [ 6711.140000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 6711.320000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 [ 6711.320000] ata1: EH complete [ 6711.328000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) [ 6711.328000] sda: Write Protect is off [ 6711.328000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 6711.672000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 6711.692000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) [ 6711.692000] sda: Write Protect is off [ 6711.692000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 6711.692000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
still the "30 secs" even though: cat '/sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/timeout' 10 -- ata_piix problem with Intel ICH7 chipset https://launchpad.net/bugs/53754 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs