It has been a week since updating anything here, my main pc "master" has been flawless all week. Tonight, I logged-off the better half (from KDE), and it took over 15 minutes to get through my logon and into FVWM. A reboot took a whopping 25 minutes. I removed Beagle completely, and got it to reboot in 10 minutes...
Well...cr#p, why didn't I think to boot off the dvd...I guess I should try that now...eh? After many painful hours of slooow scrolling through message logs, the only thing that stands out (and is not showing before this evening) are tons of warn log entries of ata attempting dma133, scaling back all the way to dma33 and stalling out. Dec 13 22:43:19 master kernel: ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO4 Dec 13 22:43:19 master kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 13 22:43:19 master kernel: ata2.00: cmd c8/00:20:e1:92:23/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 16384 in Dec 13 22:43:19 master kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 13 22:44:20 master kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 13 22:44:20 master kernel: ata2.00: cmd c8/00:10:69:d0:ee/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 8192 in Dec 13 22:44:20 master kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 13 22:44:25 master kernel: ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) Dec 13 23:53:15 master kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 13 23:53:15 master kernel: ata2.00: cmd c8/00:18:49:6a:0a/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 12288 in Dec 13 23:53:15 master kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 14 00:03:05 master kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 14 00:03:05 master kernel: ata2.00: cmd c8/00:78:e1:e3:27/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 61440 in Dec 14 00:03:05 master kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) I have searched my archive of this forum (painful as it was with slow hard drives), and found nothing similar, however I found (googled) a similar discussion back in July on the Ubuntu forum with some kernel developers discussing a very similar situation... And there were some discussions here of various problems with the SATA/PATA driver. I have two SATA drives on an Asus A7V600 MB, Athlon +2800 cpu running: Linux master 2.6.22.13-0.3-default #1 SMP 2007/11/19 15:02:58 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I'll try the dvd boot now...in the meantime, any thoughts from you guys? Thanks, Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
