I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my internal HDD and daily 13.04 on my external usb hdd. Grub2 correctly identifies both installations, and bot run just fine after booting. When I choose the 13.04 entry after booting the internal hdd this message appears
Code:
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed
after 15 seconds or so the message dissappears and 13.04 boots just fine.
This slows the boot process - if I choose to boot to directly the messages doesn't appear, but the boot process is just as slow.
I've searched on line and found plenty references to the message, but no solutions. I'd like to fix this.
Dell Inspiron 6000 Intel celeron 1.5Gz
2 Gb memory
Code:
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 746 MB in 2.00 seconds = 372.78 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 104 MB in 3.01 seconds = 34.50 MB/sec
pfeiffep@de:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=TOSHIBA MK4026GAX, FwRev=PA102D, SerialNo=75CI6825T
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=48
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=8
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78140160
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6
* signifies the current active mode
Code:
pfeiffep@de:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 1018 MB in 2.00 seconds = 508.97 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 80 MB in 3.03 seconds = 26.37 MB/sec
pfeiffep@de:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument
Gparted correctly identifies the drive as SAMSUNG MP0402H.
Any ideas about the HDIO .... message, and about the speed reported?
TIA
Pete
