Re: sata_sil problems (lockup at boottime)
From: Doug McLain (nostar_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:34:32 -0500 To: Gerald Hopf <gerald.hopf@nv-systems.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Gerald Hopf wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> i'm having some really strange problems with the sata_sil driver.
>
> My hardware:
> Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev 1.x with onboard Sil3112 Controller
> - Samsung SP1614C SATA Harddrive
> - for further testing : PATA to SATA Adapter that came with an ABIT
> Mainboard
>
> What i'm trying to accomplish: i'm trying to use this Samsung SATA
> harddrive in my Linux Fileserver:
>
> When the Silicon Image Controller is enabled (it can be disabled by a
> jumper) and no harddrive is connected, everything boots fine.
> If i connect a harddrive, i get the following message (exact messages
> change slightly) while booting:
>
> - - - - - START - - - - -
> ======================
> [<c0102716>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
> [<c0117d70>] __do_softirq+0x30/0x90
> [<c0104261>] do_softirq+0x41/0x50
> ======================
> [<c012d0a4>] irq_exit+0x34/0x40
> [<c0104165>] do_IRQ+9x45/0x60
> [<c0102716>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
> [<c010c674>] delay_tsc+0x14/0x20
> [<c025efd2>] __delay+0x12/0x20
> [<c02d7290>] ata_pio_complet+0xe0/0x1f0
> [<c02d7a95>] ata_pio_test+0x95/0xb0
> [<c01229bc>] worker_thread+0x1cc/0x290
> [<c02d7a00>] ata_pio_task+0x0/0xb0
> [<c0110160>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
> [<c0110160>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
> [<c01227f0>] worker_thread+0x0/0x290
> [<c0126ca5>] kthread+0xa5/0xb0
> [<c0126c00>] kthread+0x0/0xb0
> [<c01006f1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14
> handlers:
> [<c02d82b0>] (ata_interrupt+0x0/0x1c0)
> Disabling IRQ #11
> ata: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 361882080 sectors: lba 48
> _
> - - - - - END - - - - -
>
> This happens with both the Samsung SP1614C "native" SATA drive, as well
> as with an IBM 180GB PATA drive, using a PATA-to-SATA Adapter.
> So i'm not sure whether this is harddrive dependent, but at least it
> doesn't look like it...
>
> This problem has been there in all of the latest 2.6.X kernel revisions.
> I'm currently using 2.6.10-rc3 (which came out today), but i've allready
> had this problem in 2.6.9 and 2.6.8 and probably even 2.6.7 if i
> remember correctly.
>
> I tried quite a lot to get rid of those problems, including:
> - Flashing a new/different Bios (even with different versions of the
> Silicon Image SATA Bios part: 4.2.47 and 4.2.50)
> - Disabling APIC in the Bios, compiling Kernel with or without APIC
> - Changing the IRQ of the Controller by reserving IRQ#11 in the Bios
> - Disabling allmost every other onboard device i could, including
> serial/parallel/usb/firewire/3com lan (and there are no PCI/Addon cards
> besides an nvidia geforce2mx agp card installed in this pc anyway!)
> - Connecting drives to both ports
>
> I found the following discussions which might be related to what i'm
> experiencing, but noone seems to have a solution. Some seem to suggest
> it worked fine till 2.6.5:
> (The first two seem to be most related, i'm not so sure of the third one)
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-26543.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128180
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-23028.html
>
> Screenshots of the error messages can be found here:
> http://www.nv-systems.net/pics/lkml/sata_sil1.jpg <-- the one from above
> http://www.nv-systems.net/pics/lkml/sata_sil2.jpg <-- with samsung
> instead of ibm
> http://www.nv-systems.net/pics/lkml/sata_sil3.jpg <-- the screen just
> before the problem
>
> Is there ANYTHING i can do (except buying a promise controller) ?
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Gerald
I am having exactly the same problem, the only difference being the
model of drive. Mine is a WD2000. The sata_sil module loads ok though,
if the drive is not connected. If it is connected, hard lock. Tested
on 2.4.25, 2.6.9, 2.6.10.
Doug
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