Description of problem: On boot, everything hangs, and messages saying that ata3 and ata4 failed to respond, and SRST failed. System continues to boot OK. Relevant part from dmesg: ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient ata3: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata3: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata3: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata3: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata3: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata3: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata3: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata3: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata3: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata3: reset failed, giving up and ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient ata4: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata4: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata4: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata4: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata4: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata4: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata4: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata4: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata4: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata4: reset failed, giving up Full dmesg output is attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 (also seen with the install kernel kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6). How reproducible: Evertime Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC6 2. 3. Actual results: ata3 and ata4 not properly detected Expected results: ata3 and ata4 properly detected Additional info: dmesg output and lspci output will be attached below. What else can I provide to help debug?
Created attachment 145465 [details] output of dmesg after boot
Created attachment 145466 [details] Output of lspci -vv
Is there anything attached to ata3/ata4? Are they enabled in the BIOS? I have a machine here (Dell PowerEdge SC430) that does the same thing with ata2, which is a SATA port with nothing attached to it. It's disabled in BIOS (as are ata3 and ata4) but ata_piix still detects it. Strange.
Oh, my controller's an ICH7-family 82801GB/GR/GH, rev 01 (8086:27c0)
Nothing is attached to ata3 and ata4 as far as I can tell. I just checked in the bios settings: SATA-2 not available in this chasis SATA-3 not available in this chasis SATA-4 Off SATA-5 Off Very mysterious.
This is fixed for me with kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6, which is currently in updates-testing. Can you enable the updates-testing repo and try that kernel? (yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel should do it)
kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 does indeed fix the problem for me. I wonder if these bugs are dupes: 220138 212737 I didn't mark them as dupes, as I wasn't 100 percent sure they are the same thing. I'll mark this bug as closed. Thanks for the help.