Dis issues with Sun Ultra 40

[stan]

I installed Kubuntu 7.19 RC on a Sun Ultra 40 this weekend. The machine
takes a very long time to boot, and is aparantley having issues with the
disk on boot. I am getting things like this in dmesg, after boot:

[   31.415274] sata_nv 0000:00:07.0: version 3.4
[   31.415555] sata_nv 0000:00:07.0: Using ADMA mode
[   31.416278] scsi0 : sata_nv
[   31.416444] scsi1 : sata_nv
[   31.416500] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000142e480 ctl
0xffffc2000142e4a0 bmdma 0x0000000000011c10 irq 21
[   31.416504] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000142e580 ctl
0xffffc2000142e5a0 bmdma 0x0000000000011c18 irq 21
[   31.886962] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   31.895172] ata1.00: ATA-7: HITACHI HDS7250SASUN500G 0547KM6N0D,
K2AOA20A, max UDMA/133
[   31.895177] ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth
31/32)
[   31.919166] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[   32.234930] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   32.235020] ata1: bounce limit 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, segment boundary
0xFFFFFFFF, hw segs 61
[   32.235581] sata_nv 0000:00:08.0: Using ADMA mode
[   32.235907] scsi2 : sata_nv
[  135.259943] ata1: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x0
[  135.259946] ata1: CPB 1: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x0
[  135.259947] ata1: CPB 2: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x0
[  135.259949] ata1: CPB 3: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x0
[  135.259951] ata1: CPB 4: ctl_flags 0x1f, resp_flags 0x0
[  135.259957] ata1: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400
[  135.259964] ata1: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400
[  135.259974] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f SErr 0x0 action 0x2
frozen
[  135.259979] ata1.00: cmd 61/e8:00:07:98:00/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb
0x0 data 249856 out
[  135.259985] ata1.00: cmd 61/e8:08:ef:99:00/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb
0x0 data 249856 out
[  135.259991] ata1.00: cmd 61/38:10:d7:9b:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb
0x0 data 28672 out
[  135.259996] ata1.00: cmd 60/20:18:27:5e:94/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 3 cdb
0x0 data 16384 in
[  135.260001] ata1.00: cmd 60/20:20:37:6b:f4/00:00:0c:00:00/40 tag 4 cdb
0x0 data 16384 in
[  135.571904] ata1: soft resetting port
[  135.727896] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
:
This is with:

Linux amanda 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 05:28:36 GMT 2007 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Is there a boot time flag I can set to avoid these errors?


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