From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261905AbVCUWTX (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:19:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261947AbVCUWTW (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:19:22 -0500 Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net ([63.240.76.165]:8621 "EHLO sccimhc91.asp.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261905AbVCUWTC (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:19:02 -0500 From: Jay Roplekar To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [SATA] sata-via : bug? Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:18:16 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: jay_roplekar@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503211618.16942.jay_roplekar@hotmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a brand new Western Digital sata drive, VIA KT600 based ECS motherboard on which I am trying to install various distros (with installers based on 2.4.26, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.11 etc) all of them fail to detect the HD (and bomb out) because sata-via is ignoring it . I have only one disk, I am not interested in raid. lspci which tells me it is VIA 6420 and should be supported based on sata-via.c. Following are syslog snippets that show more. I would appreciate your help in resolving this. Thanks, Jay ## 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e1ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 1884 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at b000 [size=8] I/O ports at b400 [size=4] I/O ports at b800 [size=8] I/O ports at bc00 [size=4] I/O ports at c000 [size=16] I/O ports at c400 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 ##Dmesg when I connect the disk on channel 1 libata version 1.10 loaded. sata_via version 1.1 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 11 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB000 ctl 0xB402 bmdma 0xC000 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xB800 ctl 0xBC02 bmdma 0xC008 irq 11 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:3030 82:0078 83:0078 84:0000 85:0000 86:3fff 87:0010 88:000f ata1: no dma/lba ata1: dev 0 not supported, ignoring scsi0 : sata_via ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi1 : sata_via ##with disk on second channel following ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi0 : sata_via ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:3030 82:0078 83:0078 84:0078 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000 88:0000 ata2: no dma/lba ata2: dev 0 not supported, ignoring scsi1 : sata_via ## I took this disk and sata cable on a different (ICH5 based) motherboard and ## knoppix detected the disk ok and associated sda with it.