On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:43:30 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I updated this computer from FC6 to Fedora 7 earlier this afternoon. Now when > I first boot it, immediately after printing the "Starting Red Hat Nash" line, > it pauses and over the course of the following two minutes or so it prints the > following error message three times: > > ata1:00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) Here is some more information from dmesg that may be of some value. If there is anything else that I should post regarding this issue let me know. SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.20 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.10ac1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001ffa0 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001ffa8 irq 15 scsi0 : ata_piix usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice ata1.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Logitech Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2 as /class/input/input3 Force feedback for Logitech force feedback devices by Johann Deneux <johann.dene ux@xxxxxxxx> input: USB HID v1.10 Gamepad [Logitech Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2] on usb-000 0:00:1d.1-2 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO3 ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: disabled scsi1 : ata_piix ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x00010177 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e800 ctl 0x0001e402 bmdma 0x0001d800 irq 19 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001e000 ctl 0x0001dc02 bmdma 0x0001d808 irq 19 scsi2 : ata_piix ata3.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 586072368, hpa_sectors = 586072368 ata3.00: ATA-7: ST3300622AS, 3.AAD, max UDMA/133 ata3.00: 586072368 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata3.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 586072368, hpa_sectors = 586072368 ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi3 : ata_piix ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x0001e007 scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3300622AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sda: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com