[Linux-disciples] bootup errors

[Karl Sokol]

My system takes a long time to boot.  I have two hard drives, a 250 gb sata
(/dev/sda1) drive that I run windows on and a 40 gb (dev/hda1) ide for
Ubuntu.

[4294867.752000] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ
0x4/00/00
[4294867.752000] ata1: status=0x25 { DeviceFault CorrectedError Error }
[4294867.752000] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
[4294867.752000] sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
[4294867.752000]     Additional sense: No additional sense information
[4294867.752000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 102
[4294869.086000] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ
0x4/00/00
[4294869.086000] ata1: status=0x25 { DeviceFault CorrectedError Error }
[4294869.086000] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
[4294869.086000] sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
[4294869.086000]     Additional sense: No additional sense information

My system runs more or less O.K. but it takes about 15 minutes to boot as it
repeats endless pages of the above.

I can find very little on this.  One response to a similar string of errors
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-ATA-warnings-in-dmesg-p1148642.html was not
terribly helpful.

"I don't think you need to worry. Those messages are produced from the
libata passthough code, whenever sense data has been requested...

0xb0 looks like a SMART command, so I would guess (haven't looked at
-mm) that the ata ioctl handlers have been updated to request it."

Not much from Ubuntu forums either
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-76316.html

The windows drive mounts within linux with no problem.

Should these errors be a concern?  If not, is there a way to suppress them
so that the machine boots faster?

Thanks

--
Grace and Peace,
Karl Sokol
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