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

[Jesse Becker]

1) Try booting with "pci=nomsi" [1]
2) Try fiddling with BIOS settings:  change sata mode from "enchanced IDE" to "ahci"
3) Try swapping cables, RAM chips, and ports on the motherboard.

This sounds like a really obscure/strange/wierd kernel problem.  It seems half an IDE/ATA kernel bug, and half broken hardware.

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7493082&postcount=20
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220706/comments/30
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Jesse Becker
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--- On Mon, 10/12/09, Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Politik Durden <politikdurden at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [UFO Chicago] fedora 11 error "ata1 srst failed errno 16"
> To: "Depaul Linux" <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>, "UFO Mail list" <ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us>
> Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 9:02 PM
> 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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