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I have a strange behaviour: when I first boot the PC there seems to be a disk problem (DMA?). After a hardware reset, the second boot works normally. This behaviour is systematic.
I run Kubuntu 8.04
This is part oft the dmesg output after first boot (it takes about 20min! to boot)
Code:
$dmesg
...
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-23-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)) #1 SMP Thu Nov 27 18:44:42 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-23.46-generic)
...
[ 67.109584] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 67.114263] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:01:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 512 in
[ 67.114265] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 67.123493] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 72.156649] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 77.135851] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 77.140507] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 77.323903] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 77.328511] ata1: EH complete
[ 107.278596] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 107.283211] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:01:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 512 in
[ 107.283212] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 107.292445] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 152.494696] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 157.473898] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 157.478490] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 157.661948] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 157.666483] ata1: EH complete
[ 187.616645] ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66:PIO4
[ 187.621118] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 187.625667] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:01:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 512 in
[ 187.625668] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 187.634717] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 232.836737] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 237.815939] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 237.820325] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 238.003990] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
[ 238.008323] ata1: EH complete
[ 267.958685] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 267.963027] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:01:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 512 in
[ 267.963028] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 267.971642] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 273.005760] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 277.984962] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 277.989267] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 308.163647] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 308.168322] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:07:01:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 3584 in
[ 308.168323] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 308.177667] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 313.210721] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 318.189923] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 318.194569] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 318.377951] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
[ 318.382570] ata1: EH complete
[ 348.332670] ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO4
[ 348.337266] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 348.341905] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:07:01:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 3584 in
[ 348.341906] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 348.351194] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 353.383738] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 358.362939] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 358.367564] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 358.550990] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 358.555615] ata1: EH complete
[ 388.505685] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 388.510324] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:07:01:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 3584 in
[ 388.510325] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 388.519609] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 393.552761] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 396.595556] Attempting manual resume
[ 396.600340] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:23
[ 396.600342] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 396.608578] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 396.651505] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 396.656308] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 398.531966] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 398.541225] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 398.723987] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 398.728599] ata1: EH complete
[ 404.409231] i2c-adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c00
[ 404.418037] i2c-adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c40
[ 404.701667] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input2
[ 404.721047] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 404.725643] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
[ 404.741017] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 406.234739] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 23
[ 406.239094] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> Link [APCJ] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 406.243536] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
[ 406.565774] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54727 usecs
[ 406.570178] intel8x0: clocking to 46909
[ 407.196684] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 407.272634] /build/buildd/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/debian/build/build-generic/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: USB GSPCA camera found.(ZC3XX)
[ 407.452822] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 407.492006] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 408.210906] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[ 408.374145] usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
[ 408.378716] /build/buildd/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/debian/build/build-generic/media/gspcav1/gspca_core.c: gspca driver 01.00.20 registered
[ 408.435119] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 408.642598] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 2897 MBytes.
[ 408.647476] [fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[ 408.652393] [fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[ 408.710001] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.47.3 [Feb 25 2008] on minor 0
[ 408.722067] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input4
[ 408.919810] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 408.924914] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 409.041911] logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 115
[ 409.061131] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 409.524976] input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
[ 409.551545] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 409.556556] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[ 419.299267] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 428.678712] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 428.683724] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:07:01:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 3584 in
[ 428.683726] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 428.693775] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 433.729771] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 438.708973] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 438.713983] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 438.897023] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 438.901951] ata1: EH complete
[ 468.851720] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 468.856651] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:07:01:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 3584 in
[ 468.856652] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 468.866394] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 473.898794] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 478.877997] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 478.882879] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 479.066050] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 479.070866] ata1: EH complete
[ 509.020743] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 509.025682] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:07:01:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 3584 in
[ 509.025683] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 509.035618] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 514.067818] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 519.047021] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 519.052021] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 519.235049] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 519.240058] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
[ 519.245180] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor]
[ 519.250343] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 519.255542] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 519.260837] 00 00 00 00
[ 519.266041] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[ 519.271327] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 40132353
[ 519.276628] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132353
[ 519.281933] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132354
[ 519.287237] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132355
[ 519.292467] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132356
[ 519.297626] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132357
[ 519.302714] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132358
[ 519.307731] Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 40132359
[ 519.312700] ata1: EH complete
[ 519.317689] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 40132503 512-byte hardware sectors (20548 MB)
[ 519.343872] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 519.348797] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 519.366163] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 549.309557] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 549.314487] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 549.314489] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 549.324129] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 554.356630] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 559.335833] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 559.340545] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 559.523885] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 559.528368] ata1: EH complete
[ 584.248478] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 584.373280] Adding 2650684k swap on /dev/sdb5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2650684k
[ 584.374829] Adding 3036244k swap on /dev/sdb7. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:3036244k
[ 584.701800] EXT3 FS on sdb4, internal journal
[ 584.847268] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 584.847308] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[ 586.224607] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 586.224709] EXT3 FS on sdb6, internal journal
[ 586.224713] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 586.425452] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 586.425531] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[ 586.425535] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 586.489189] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 586.489275] EXT3 FS on sdb3, internal journal
[ 586.489278] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 586.963356] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 589.478590] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 589.478707] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 589.478709] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 589.478820] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 594.509683] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 599.484892] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 599.484895] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 599.664956] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 599.664964] ata1: EH complete
[ 603.941760] No dock devices found.
[ 604.304803] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 604.304834] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6
[ 604.304837] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12
[ 605.306972] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 605.306977] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[ 605.726318] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 605.935609] audit(1233178467.823:2): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::" name="/dev/tty" pid=5823 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 606.538570] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 608.168812] [fglrx] Reserve Block - 0 offset = 0X0 length = 0X40000
[ 608.168819] [fglrx] Reserve Block - 1 offset = 0Xffff000 length = 0X1000
[ 608.168823] [fglrx] Reserve Block - 2 offset = 0X7fc0000 length = 0X40000
[ 608.397283] [fglrx] interrupt source 20008000 successfully enabled
[ 608.397290] [fglrx] enable ID = 0x00000004
[ 608.397298] [fglrx] Receive enable interrupt message with irqEnableMask: 20008000
[ 608.397352] [fglrx] interrupt source 10000000 successfully enabled
[ 608.397354] [fglrx] enable ID = 0x00000005
[ 608.397357] [fglrx] Receive enable interrupt message with irqEnableMask: 10000000
[ 1099.832297] Marking TSC unstable due to: cpufreq changes.
[ 1099.840103] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
[ 1100.251313] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -186466037 ns)
[ 1101.510351] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 1101.511860] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 1101.511866] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 1101.511872] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 1101.634252] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[ 1101.634260] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 1101.826724] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 1101.826761] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 1101.826765] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 1121.057566] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 1121.057583] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 1121.057586] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 1121.057592] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 626.423985] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 1134.073214] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 1134.073225] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 1134.253538] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 1134.253558] ata1: EH complete
[ 1171.257603] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 1171.257621] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 1171.257624] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 1171.257630] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 1176.293591] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 1181.273619] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 1181.273629] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 1181.453883] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 1181.453904] ata1: EH complete
[ 1211.429655] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 1211.429673] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:5f:64/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in
[ 1211.429676] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 1211.429682] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 1217.448434] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
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