Slow boot and constant HDD activity...HELP!!

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Hi, I am still new to linux and just installed opensuse 11.1 and all was fine untill I went to yast, software and ran the online update. Now when I boot up linux it takes a long time and after suse is booted up the HDD led is constant. I did know enough to add VGA=normal in grub and this is what is is displayed when it hangs:

<6>ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9f0 ctl 0xbf0 bmdma 0xd800 irq 21
<6>ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xb70 bmdma 0xd808 irq 21
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<4>ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<4>ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
<3>ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<4>ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
<6>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
<6>ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ASA1] enabled at IRQ 20
<6>sata_nv 0000:00:0e.1: PCI INT B -> Link[ASA1] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
<5>sata_nv 0000:00:0e.1: Using SWNCQ mode
<7>sata_nv 0000:00:0e.1: setting latency timer to 64

It looks like it has something to do with the HDD. I Have 2 HDD’s in the computer with linux on the second drive. I also noticed that before updating I could access my ntfs partitions in nautilus and now they do not show up and are not in my fstab file and I do not know how to add them back in.
Any help would be awesome. Thanks

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Have you tried the Failsafe boot option?
Report how that works…

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Did not get a chance to try failsafe. After spending about an hour on google and trying various fixes with no luck I shutdown my box and and did other things. I just now turned it back on and all is well again! It boots up like it should, no steady HDD activity and I can mount my ntfs drive again. All it took was doing a full shutdown and not a restart. Thanks anyway for your help. Will post again if it acts up.

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I have the same thing. In my case, it seems to be related to networking. If I disconnect the network cable and reboot, booting takes forever.

And if I’ve used wireless networking at home, and connect mij work network cable, it also does. Subsequent boots seem to be a lot faster.