Binary package hint: kubuntu-live
When booting in 'Safe Graphics' mode (the nv driver doesn't like my GeForce 6600 card) or even just trying to run a check for CD defects, the Kubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta 1 Live CD fails to boot early in the process after apparently trying to access a floppy disc for several seconds. Eventually it drops to a busybox console and the following error appears over the prompt:
ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
If I put a floppy in the drive and try to boot again, it accesses the floppy disc for a while and then proceeds to boot as normal. dmesg and /var/log/messages contain the following after the successful boot:
[ 35.968478] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.10ac1
[ 35.968524] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[ 35.968619] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001f000 irq 14
[ 35.968681] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001f008 irq 15
[ 35.968711] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 36.026151] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 36.036598] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 36.111818] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 36.130278] ata1.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG SP2014N, VC100-33, max UDMA/100
[ 36.130286] ata1.00: 390721968 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
[ 36.138282] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 36.141069] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 36.224568] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 36.457942] ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[ 36.465710] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 36.621840] ata2.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[ 36.720078] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 66.593489] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[ 66.593505] ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[ 66.593513] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[ 72.240396] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
All the hard drives and optical drives are detected and operate correctly and so does the floppy drive once I'm in KDE. This didn't happen in Dapper or Edgy.
IDE/PCI Details:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 0506
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
I double checked the md5sum of the ISO I downloaded against the sums on the download site and also burned another CD and had k3b verify the written data and all checked out ok.
Has this issue been fixed in the latest Feisty releases?