SATA error: no sense translation for error 0x20

[Ricardo L. Febrero]

Binary package hint: linux-image

I'm using Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.2 Completely updated, except that I'm not able to boot the last kernel (it doesn't recognize the root FS, I will post it later).
My computer is a Pentium 4 2,8Ghz, SATA Disk (80GiB), 512 MiB DDR.
The motherboard is an Intel one, I post here the lspci info:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

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My hard drive is as follows:
smartctl version 5.34 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA ST380013AS Version: 3.18

In Linux, SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported
by smartmontools. By the time you read this, support may have been added
in recent kernels. Try an additional '-d ata' argument.
root@ubuntu:~# smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.34 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
Device Model: ST380013AS
Serial Number: 3JV9DEV1
Firmware Version: 3.18
User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Wed Jan 23 17:48:50 2008 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

== My CD-ROM drive is as follows (it doesn't work perfectly, since it's a bit old, but anyways, it's empty, so this shouldn't be happening)
LG gcr-8523b (52X max)

I'm getting this error log CONTINUOSLY (my log having been more than 100MB long)
The strange thing is that everything appears to work perfectly. I should test with latest kernel

[17186207.696000] ata2: PIO error
[17186207.696000] ata2: no sense translation for error 0x20
[17186207.696000] ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
[17186207.696000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
[17186207.696000] sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: <6>Read TOC/PMA/ATIP 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00
[17186207.696000] sr: Current [descriptor]: sense key: Medium Error
[17186207.696000] Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[17186207.696000] ata2: PIO error
[17186207.696000] ata2: no sense translation for error 0x20
[17186207.696000] ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
[17186207.696000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
...
[many more times]
...
[17186209.756000] sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: <6>Read TOC/PMA/ATIP 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 40
[17186209.756000] sr: Current [descriptor]: sense key: Medium Error
[17186209.756000] Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[17186209.756000] ata2: PIO error
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for error 0x20
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
[17186209.756000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
[17186209.756000] ata2: PIO error
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for error 0x20
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
[17186209.756000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
[17186209.756000] ata2: PIO error
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for error 0x20
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
[17186209.756000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
[17186209.756000] sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: <6>Read TOC/PMA/ATIP 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00
[17186209.756000] sr: Current [descriptor]: sense key: Medium Error
[17186209.756000] Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[17186209.756000] ata2: PIO error
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for error 0x20
[17186209.756000] ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
[17186209.756000] ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
...
[many many more times, almost infinite]

[Ricardo L. Febrero (rlfebrero)]

Now it works, it was only needed to change BIOS settings (and put SATA as SATA, not IDE emulation)

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This is not a bug in the linux-meta package, moving to the linux package.

This was a BIOS configuration issue, so we can mark the task Invalid.