cali101 Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 I'm using a Thinkpad T43 (2668), and every time i boot linux (I've tried Gentoo minimal, xubuntu 10.10 and 11.04, and I'm now running Zenwalk), I get: ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) repeated over about 15 seconds, until it seems to give up and carry on booting. Now, as far as I'm aware, there's only one storage device in my laptop, and that's ata2, which is a Momentus 160GB sata drive which i have in the ultrabay (dmesg tells me this). I can't figure out what ata1 is - dmesg doesn't give any details - just says it's UDMA/133 SATA (as opposed to my harddrive which is UDMA/100 and PATA), and then it repeats what's given while the system boots. Any ideas?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 ATA1 I believe is the IDE port #1 IDE Hard Drives are ATA rated.... 33/66/100/133 could be a hard drive or Optical drive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
medbor Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 probably optical drive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cali101 Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't have an optical drive, and the only IDE port doesn't have anything connected to it (My hard drive is in the ultrabay). I removed the hard drive altogether (ata2), and the same thing occurs when i boot linux off a usb stick, which is why I'm confused... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 it may be looking for a drive there and waiting for it to respond, have you tried disabling it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cali101 Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 (edited) it may be looking for a drive there and waiting for it to respond, have you tried disabling it? This may be a stupid question, but how might I go about doing this?! If you're referring to the BIOS settings, I can only disable modem, infrared port, etc. nothing useful... I was hoping there was a way of stopping linux from checking for it during bootup, but there doesn't seem to be. Edited May 13, 2011 by cali101 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted May 13, 2011 Posted May 13, 2011 oh ok, well there goes that idea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cali101 Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 oh ok, well there goes that idea. Don't suppose you know of a way of stopping the o/s from trying to access it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheGamer11 Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 did you try putting it in the first port or any other? unless you only have one? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cali101 Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 did you try putting it in the first port or any other? unless you only have one? The reason I have it in the ultrabay is because the IDE port does not work, so unfortunately there's nowhere else to put it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
l1o2l Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 Try updating the bios. If there's a new update, it might unlock features. MIGHT. And why doesn't the IDE port work? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cali101 Posted May 24, 2011 Posted May 24, 2011 Try updating the bios. If there's a new update, it might unlock features. MIGHT. And why doesn't the IDE port work? BIOS is the latest version, and I have no idea why the IDE port doesn't work. It doesn't seem to realise that there's a drive in there... Turns out it was 70 seconds, not 15 :-( Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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