Re: Kernel 2.6.15 sometimes only detects one of two SATA drives and panics

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Andre Hessling <ahessling@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> 
> I recently upgraded from 2.6.14 to 2.6.15 vanilla and I encountered some
> random kernel panics on boot so far.
> 
> The panic is:
> "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"

Reuben, do you think this is the same as the bug you're seeing?

> My config hasn't changed since 2.6.14 and I never encountered such an
> error under 2.6.14.
> 
> My system configuration: I have two SATA drives, /dev/sdb7 is the root
> partition using reiserfs.
> SATA, SCSI and reiserfs are compiled into the kernel.
> My kernel command line is just: root=/dev/sdb7
> 
> lspci -v gives for the SATA controller:
> 
> 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA
> Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
>         Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device
> 7091
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
>         I/O ports at e400 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at e500 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at e600 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at e700 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at e800 [size=16]
>         Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2
> 
> 
> Sometimes the kernel boots without an error and sometimes it just
> panics. I found out (using a camera, since I can't log the sys messages
> at this time) that there is one big difference between booting the
> kernel with and without a panic.
> 
> Usually it looks like this:
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] ->
> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl
> 0xE502 bmdma 0xE800 irq 18
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE600 ctl
> 0xE702 bmdma 0xE808 irq 18
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133,
> 312581808 sectors: LBA48
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: scsi0 : ata_piix
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata2: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133,
> 312581808 sectors: LBA48
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC
> WD1600JD-00H  Rev: 08.0
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC
> WD1600JD-22H  Rev: 08.0
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte
> hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write
> back
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte
> hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write
> back
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte
> hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write
> back
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte
> hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write
> back
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 >
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0
> type 0
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1
> type 0
> [some other drivers]
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: sdb7: found reiserfs format
> "3.6" with standard journal
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: sdb7: using ordered data
> mode
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: sdb7: journal params: device
> sdb7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch
> 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: sdb7: checking transaction
> log (sdb7)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: sdb7: Using r5 hash to sort
> names
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs
> filesystem) readonly.
> [...]
> 
> And an extract of the syslog booting a kernel that will panic looks like
> this:
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] ->
> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl
> 0xE502 bmdma 0xE800 irq 18
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE600 ctl
> 0xE702 bmdma 0xE808 irq 18
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133,
> 312581808 sectors: LBA48
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: scsi0 : ata_piix
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata2: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133,
> 312581808 sectors: LBA48
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC
> WD1600JD-00H  Rev: 08.0
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte
> hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write
> back
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte
> hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write
> back
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
> Jan 11 17:57:43 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0
> type 0
> [some other drivers]
> ->Panic
> 
> Notice that sda is detected, but sdb is not. But as my Linux partition
> is on sdb, it is obvious that a kernel panic appears.
> 
> So why is sdb sometimes detected and sometimes not?
> 
> Of course I already double-checked that the config really hasn't changed
> and the fact that it sometimes works should clarify that the config is
> correct.
> 
> Thanks so far.
> -- 
> Regards,
> André
> 
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