From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263789AbUESDxk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 23:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263788AbUESDxk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 23:53:40 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:5580 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263786AbUESDwF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 23:52:05 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: libata 2.6.5->2.6.6 regression -part II Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:13:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <40A8E9A8.3080100@wasp.net.au> In-Reply-To: <40A8E9A8.3080100@wasp.net.au> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405181513.12920.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 17 of May 2004 18:34, Brad Campbell wrote: > G'day all, > I caught the suggestion on my last post in the archives, but because I'm > not subscribed and wasn't cc'd I can't keep it threaded. > > I tried backing out the suggested acpi patch (No difference at all), and I > managed to get apic to work but it still hangs solid in the same place. > > dmesg attached. > > I managed to figure out that the VIA ATA driver captures my sata drives on > the via ports, explaining why sata_via misses them, but writing data to > those drives (hde & hdg) causes dma timeouts and locks the machine. No > useful debug info produced. The machine becomes non-responsive, throws a > couple of dma timeouts to the console and then loses all interactivity > (keyboard, serial, network) forcing a reset push. > > Is there any way I can prevent the VIA ATA driver capturing this device? > Unfortunately my boot drive is on hda on the on-board VIA ATA interface so > I need it compiled in. Disable the fscking PCI IDE generic driver. [ You are not the first one tricked by it. ] AFAIR support for VIA 8237 was added to it before sata_via.c was ready. [ but my memory is... ] > Please CC: me on any replies. > > Regards, > Brad