4.9 ATA hangs with 2 ata drives

[Lee Harr]

>I've got both 4.9 and 5.1 loaded on my new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
>with two 160Gb disks on the primary ATA controller.
>

>it hangs during kernel boot after the
>message:
>
>ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
>ata0: resetting devices
>


Yup. I have the same thing.

What I do is go in to the BIOS and set the slave drive
from "Auto" to "None" when I want to boot from the first
drive, and switch it back when I want to boot from the
second drive. Kind of a pain, but it works...

I think it's just symptomatic of the nforce2 chipset which
is only partially supported due to nvidia's refusal or
inability to release proper specs.

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