Bug 2302

Summary:	(sata ich5) kernel hangs at ata initilization
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Norbert Weinhold (esbonw)
Component:	Serial ATA	Assignee:	Jeff Garzik (jgarzik)
Status:	CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jgarzik
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.4	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	lspci -vvv output

Description Norbert Weinhold 2004-03-14 14:51:07 UTC

Distribution: Debian stable/testing 
Hardware Environment: MSI 875P Neo PIV 2.8 GHz with HT, 1GB RAM, TI Firewire, 
NVIDIA GF 5200, Hauppauge TV Card 878, Yamaha sound card,Onboard sound 
disabled 
 
Software Environment: 
Problem Description:  
 
 If both PATA channels and the SATA channel of the ICH5R are activated, Kernel 
hangs at booting with: 
 
ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x21 
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1F7 
scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun , CDB: 0x28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 
current sda: sense=70  3 
ASC=11 ASCQ= 4 
Raw sense data: 0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
0x11 0x04 
end_request: I/O error, dev sda sector 0 
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1F7 
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1F7 
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1F7 
 
it does not hang in mode with one PATA channel and SATA activated. 
Only essential drivers for booting are compiled into the kernel. 
Running without libata only with the pata-driver and all channels works but  
system is consuming a lot of CPU time and system is some sort of 
unstable.(Finishing X freezes the system)

Comment 1 Jeff Garzik 2004-03-25 08:34:41 UTC

Do you have "enhanced" a.k.a. "native" a.k.a. "SATA" mode enabled in your BIOS?

Avoid "legacy" or "combined" modes.

Comment 2 Norbert Weinhold 2004-03-25 09:29:04 UTC

I tried both modes.

Comment 3 Jeff Garzik 2004-03-25 11:07:11 UTC

Does booting with "noapic" or "nomce" help?

Can you provide full dmesg output for your machine, and "lspci -vvv" as root?

Comment 4 Norbert Weinhold 2004-03-25 12:46:29 UTC

Created attachment 2399 [details]
lspci -vvv output

Comment 5 Norbert Weinhold 2004-03-25 12:49:07 UTC

Sorry, but the kernel parameters noapic and nomce didn't work. I can not provide
dmesg output because I don't know how to do it without a running linux and
access to a  shell.

Comment 6 Alexander Nyberg 2004-12-06 14:20:40 UTC

From mail exchange (closing bug now):


> Have the problems indicated in
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2302
> 
> been solved by later kernels?

Yes! Some weeks ago I tried it with kernel 2.6.9 and it works now.