Re: kernel 2.6.0betaX: ich5 sata enhanced mode hangs during init

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

You are using drivers/ide, right?
Please also test 2.5.75 and snapshot kernels
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/snapshots/old/

thanks,
--bartlomiej

On Thursday 09 of October 2003 23:06, Howard Duck wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a Mainboard with a intel 865PE chipset. I tested many kernels to get
> my
> Serial-ATA (sata) disk to work in enhanced mode and so far only one kernel
> works - 2.5.74. I need the enhanced mode because I lose all secondary ide
> ports if i switch to legacy/compatible mode in the mainboards bios (which
> disables some of my drives).
>
> Since the first beta of kernel 2.6.0 i had no luck in successfully booting
> the
> machine unless i switched to SATA legacy mode. All 2.6.0beta-kernels make
> it
>
> to the init sequence and detect the sata disk, but the system hangs at
> random
> postions during init (starting devfsd, mounting swap or setting the
> machines
>
> hostname, well - somewhere during startup).
>
> I tried removing swap from /etc/fstab and disabling some init-scripts but
> it
>
> doesn't help. Booting in "single" mode does not work too. The only thing
> that
> works is using legacy sata support, so i guess it is related to some new
> code for
> handling serial ata controllers/disks (the machine boots off a sata disk)
> in the
> 2.6.0beta kernels. 2.5.74 boots and works w/o problems, but i'd feel better
> if i
> run a kernel marked "stable" ;)
>
> Is there something i can do to trace the problem of the hang during boot,
> maybe
> some special kernel options, new user-space tools,...? Is this maybe
> related to
> SMP support or hyperthreading cpus?
>
> I am open for any hints or test-procedures that may help to fix or find the
> problem.
> thanks in advance
>  Michael Kefeder
>
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