I have been experiencing a problem with my SATA hard drive during the sarge boot sequence. I'm working on a laptop and I have the hard drive, a 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 (6B200M0), connected to a PCMCIA Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATALink Controller. My current kernel version is 2.6.8. The boot sequence recognizes the drive correctly, but freezes at the following point: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: <3>ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4 A quick search through the debian mailing list archives returned this email from a user with a VERY similar problem (the only difference is the hard drive brand, his was a Seagate and mine is a Maxtor). http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/08/msg00340.html I'd be thankful if someone could tell where to file this bug or if there is a known fix for this. Sincerely, João Pinheiro
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