ata1: Device not ready

[ETV]

Hello users...
i have been use this ubuntu about 2 month. First everything seems to work fine, after Bill Gates production..

Now i have get more and more annoying small problems with this 10.04 version, and most
pissing off is this constantly jamming HP510 lapt top.( once again when writing this text)

Log file tells this:
Feb 9 17:29:24 Chris kernel: [77546.000230] sr 0:0:1:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Feb 9 17:29:29 Chris kernel: [77551.040177] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Feb 9 17:29:34 Chris kernel: [77556.024119] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Feb 9 17:29:34 Chris kernel: [77556.024136] ata1: soft resetting link
Feb 9 17:29:34 Chris kernel: [77556.252697] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Feb 9 17:29:34 Chris kernel: [77556.284367] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2
Feb 9 17:29:34 Chris kernel: [77556.292444] ata1: EH complete
Feb 9 17:43:34 Chris kernel: [78395.948334] ata1.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
Feb 9 17:43:34 Chris kernel: [78395.948366] sr 0:0:1:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Feb 9 17:43:39 Chris kernel: [78400.988182] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Feb 9 17:43:44 Chris kernel: [78405.972186] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
Feb 9 17:43:44 Chris kernel: [78405.972204] ata1: soft resetting link
Feb 9 17:43:44 Chris kernel: [78406.224735] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Feb 9 17:43:44 Chris kernel: [78406.256496] ata1.01: configured for MWDMA2
Feb 9 17:43:44 Chris kernel: [78406.264594] ata1: EH complete

does any one see this before, i can fins some kind from 2008 and 6, but rearly now.

i really dont like to go back to Windows, but it start to be again a tempting option...

Please, some one, give some idea, where is the problem..

Chris

[HROAdmin26]

Feb 9 17:43:39 Chris kernel: [78400.988182] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Feb 9 17:43:44 Chris kernel: [78405.972186] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset

Hardware error - it has nothing to do with the OS. Review your logs going back. It's likely the HDD is failing.

Hardware will *always* deteriorate/fail as it ages. No exceptions.

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oh.. damn. ofcourse. hmm, in testing there can not be found any malfuctions. i should put another HD and then i can tell, was it in HD or not. Windows just dont have this problem, weird.


Thank you for your post..

C

[HROAdmin26]

The drivers for Windows are not the same drivers used by Linux. Sometimes, depending on the hardware vendor's support (or lack of) for Linux, the drivers can be an issue. Due to the many ways laptops are "optimized," this is especially true for laptop vendors/hardware.

The HDD controller may have different modes it can run in - usually called IDE/legacy/compatibility and AHCI/native. It can be changed in the BIOS if it's available. Sometimes changing this mode will help.

Changing the mode will likely require an OS reinstall.

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.. i quess that.
i need to think what to do. Change this back to Win and use other Device for linux. i will search around for options. Thank you again.

Chris