[SOLVED] SSD and boot problem

Question

I recently bought a new 30GB Corsair SSD, and it runs wonderfully. However, the device takes a considerably long time to initialize on boot (~30-45 seconds).
Here's a snippet of the relevant dmesg output:
[ 23.360042] ata5: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)
[ 23.363366] ata5: drained 65536 bytes to clear DRQ
[ 23.447633] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 23.447673] scsi 4:0:0:0: CDB: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 60 00
[ 23.447683] ata5.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:60:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 96 in
[ 23.447684] res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 23.447754] ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 23.447810] ata5: soft resetting link
[ 23.653843] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 23.654431] ata5: EH complete
[ 23.654435] scsi scan: 96 byte inquiry failed. Consider BLIST_INQUIRY_36 for this device
[ 23.657130] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1312 1011 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 54.373360] ata5: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)
[ 54.376674] ata5: drained 65536 bytes to clear DRQ
[ 54.465937] ata5.00: limiting speed to UDMA/25:PIO4
[ 54.465941] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 54.465985] sr 4:0:0:0: CDB: cdb[0]=0x5a: 5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 80 00
[ 54.465996] ata5.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:80:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 16512 in
[ 54.465997] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 54.466085] ata5.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 54.466144] ata5: soft resetting link
I haven't encountered this problem with any other drive I've put in there, so I'm guessing it must be SSD-related. Has anyone else experienced something similar, and could you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Last edited by itsbrad212 (2012-04-01 00:05:28)

Answer 1

itsbrad212 wrote:
falconindy wrote:Consider RMA'ing the drive.
Do you think it's defective/worth replacing? It's more of an annoyance than anything, and the drive has no other visible issues other than on initialization.
Yes, I do. Healthy drives don't timeout on simple DMA initialization requests.