Loading ata_piix driver hangs the system (Fedora 7)

ricbax · 08-17-2007, 02:03 PM

First off if this has been covered please forward me to the post, if not please read on...

I have a bit of a situation. I have upgraded my server from fedora core 5 to fedora 7. I had no problems with the system when it was running fedora core 5.

During the install the following message popped up "Loading SCSI driver" - "Loading ata_piix driver" and it just hung there for quite some time, so I skipped this process and fedora 7 continued the install without any more problems.

The problem now is that when the system boots it hangs on "Starting udev:" I escape this step in the boot process and it continues to load.

When I check the system log the following error appears to repeat until it's escaped:

Code:

Aug 17 14:30:04 kernel: ata2: soft resetting port
Aug 17 14:30:04 gconfd (root-4511): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0
Aug 17 14:30:04 kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1)
Aug 17 14:30:04 kernel: ata2.01: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
Aug 17 14:30:04 kernel: ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
Aug 17 14:30:05 kernel: ata2: soft resetting port
Aug 17 14:30:06 kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
Aug 17 14:30:06 kernel: ata2.01: configured for MWDMA1
Aug 17 14:30:06 kernel: ata2: EH complete
Aug 17 14:30:06 kernel: ata2: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat 0x59
Aug 17 14:30:07 kernel: ata2.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Aug 17 14:30:07 kernel: ata2.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x1e data 0 
Aug 17 14:30:07 kernel:          res 51/20:03:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation)

Thanks,
ricbax

ricbax · 08-17-2007, 08:20 PM

Figured this out ... yamaha CD/RW drive is no longer supported by the ata_piix driver. Removed from the system and placed in the CD-ROM graveyard R.I.P. No more errors at boot and syslog is clean.