Messages in this thread | | | From | walt <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3 | Date | Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:37:39 -0700 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:46PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: >> I can easily reproduce the problem in 2.6.22-rc4. There are no >> sata_promise changes between rc3 and rc4, but Tejun's libata >> polling SETXFER change was included in rc4. Reverting it makes >> sata_promise work again for me. > > Ugh.
Reverting Tejun's patch also fixed my boot failure.
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X motherboard Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 16 I/O ports at d400 [size=64] I/O ports at d000 [size=16] I/O ports at b800 [size=128] Memory at f6800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X / A7V333 motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at a400 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
The problem is that the controller can't be initialized properly, so the kernel keeps trying every 5 seconds. I gave up after about five failures. If the actual boot error messages would help I'll need to copy them by hand -- just say the word.
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