Re: Unpredictable behaviour of Sata in Lenny
I've had similar problems with my nVidia 7050/630a chipset and Etch. If I
used the the stock 2.6.18 kernel, the screen filled up with those "Sata
link is down, taking too much time to respond." messages during boottime.
I think I didn't even see a prompt because it took too long to get there.
After installing a newer kernel (2.6.22 in my case), the SATA problems were
gone.
I guess you just need a newer kernel.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:27:04 +0530, "Mridul Manohar Mishra"
<mridulmmishra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am facing a weird problem in Lenny, till now I have been running
Etch
> without any problem. Two days ago I upgraded to Lenny, installation went
> smooth, I was able to install Nvidia drivers properly. Everything ran OK.
> But then I shutdown my system (power-off) and tried to power on again
> after
> a couple of minutes. The system booted to Grub, I chose linux to boot
into
> (I have dual boot with Lenny and XP) it went until certain point and then
> displayed error saying :
>
> "Sata link is down, taking too much time to respond."
> "SRST failed (error -16)."
>
> After then it displayed
> "slowing down the SATA link to 1.5 GHz "
>
> again the same SATA errors and it left me on the prompt with initramfs
> prompt.
>
> I tried resetting my system couple of times but of no avail. Then I tried
> booting into XP to see whether there is something really wrong with my
> drive, I logged in to XP successfully. Re-booted the system again and
this
> time booted into linux and to my surprise everything ran fine.
>
> I tried to generate the same scenario just to make sure whether it was
one
> off case, but it wasn't. Now if want to power on my PC, I need to boot in
> to
> windows first and then reboot my system into linux. I can't log into
Linux
> from power on, directly.
>
> I checked my BIOS to make sure if anything in BIOS is wrong, but nothing
> seems wrong with my BIOS. I have 4 sata ports on my Mother Board and the
> disk is connected to port number 2. I have DVD drive connected to IDE
> port.
> My boot preference is Hard disk first ( dunno whether this information is
> of
> any relevence).
>
> There seems to be a problem with my Lan also, sometimes it shows limited
> connectivity and to correct this also I need to boot in to windows.
>
> I have a Intel Q660 system with Nvidia Mother board and 9600GT graphics
> card. I installed the driver provided by Nvidia in Nvidia way (not the
> Debian way) hope this is not the cause of the problem.
>
> Anybody, please help me out on this in locating what the problem might
be.
> I
> want to look into the details of the problem but have got no clue where
to
> start with and what the cause might be.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mridul
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