[UFO Chicago] fedora 11 error "ata1 srst failed errno 16"

[Daniel Kelly]

On your first boot, and to your knowledge the hard drive works fine?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Very very new to Linux. :-) I've pretty much just installed off some
> LiveCDs, and fired up a browser. That's about it.
>
> Running fedora 11 on a 2GHZ Celeron gateway 300s with 1G of ram.
>
> I'm getting the error
>
> ata1 srst failed errno 16
>
> at start up (seems like right after POST) before the OS loads. Once I boot
> up, I see a message that says the hard drive is failing. I ran the western
> digital tool on the same drive in a PC and all sectors came up clean, SMART
> test passed, no errors.
>
> the Intel chipsets:
>
> memory: 82845G/GE/GL/EV
> i/o: 82801DB(ICH4)
> video: 82845G
>
> couldn't find much googling the chipsets above with keyword fedora 11.
> couldn't find a supported chipset list on fedoraproject.org.
>
> searching for the error itself goes to a bunch of ubuntu people with what
> seems like a conflict with the kernel and the chipset.
>
> That's about all I can squeak out by myself. Any log files or config
> utilities I should be looking at or sites I should go to ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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