Re: 2.6.18-rc2 Intermittent failures to detect sata disks

[Jeff Garzik]

Keith Owens wrote:
> Keith Owens (on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:18:47 +1000) wrote:
> > I am seeing an intermittent failures to detect sata disks on
> > 2.6.18-rc2.  Dell SC1425, PIIX chipset, gcc 4.1.0 (opensuse 10.1).
> > Sometimes it will detect both disks, sometimes only one, sometimes none
> > at all.  AFAICT it only occurs after a soft reboot, and possibly only
> > after an emergency reboot.  Alas the problem is so intermittent that it
> > is hard to tell what conditions will trigger it.
>
> I applied the debug patch below, turn on prink timing and set
> initdefault to 6 so the machine was in a continual soft reboot cycle.
> After multiple cycles I got this trace.  piix_sata_prereset() reads a
> zero config byte for almost 15 seconds then it changes to 0x11,
> followed by a hang.  Why is the config byte initially zero, and what
> makes it change?  The normal value for pcs is 0x33.

Can you try 2.6.18-rc2-git3?

	Jeff



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