RE: Re: Errors on Boot-Up (SOLVED)

Friday, 3 May 2013

Dear Mr. Stevens:

Thanks for your reply.

I installed two WD 1TB Hard Drives when I put my new computer together.
I am having difficulty getting Fedora to recognize and access both of
them.
(See emails "Two HDs").  Both of these HDs are new.

I removed the second HD and those errors no longer occur on boot-up.
This
tells me that the second HD is the cause of the errors.

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,
-- 
Bill Kuns <am497(a)CyberMesa.com&gt;

On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 11:27 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

...
 On 05/01/2013 02:01 PM, Bill Kuns issued this missive:
 > Dear Helpers:
 >
 > When I do manage to boot up my Fedora System, I get these remarks on the
 > screen:
 >
 > [     11.034216] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [     21.050448] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [     68.199577] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [     78.235808] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [   117.824319] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [   127.860509] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [   161.385877] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 > [   171.422106] ata5: COMRESET  Failed (errno =-16)
 >
 > After that, the system goes ahead and boots.  The next time, I get the
 > same number
 > of errors, but the numbers are different.
 >
 > Do I need to fix this?  How?

 That looks like a drive that's dying. Could be a CD or DVD drive that's
 having issues.

 To find out what device it is, try:

 	# cat /proc/scsi/scsi

 Look for the stuff under "Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00". That
 should be the device.
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