Re: [2.6.18,19] SATA boot problems (ICH6/ICH6W)

[Kovid Goyal <kovid@theory.caltech.edu>]

Unfortunately I only have ssh access to the box for the next two weeks, but 
after I return I will send the netconsole logs. Thanks for looking into this.

Kovid.

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 18:13, you wrote:
> Kovid Goyal wrote:
> > Yes going back to 2.6.17 does fix it. Also windows and various LiveCDs
> > boot without problems.
> >
> > Here is the output
> > smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
> > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
> > Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Thanks, I couldn't find anything indicating hardware problem from the
> smartctl output.  Ergh... The 0xff timing out is fixed in the devel
> tree.  The problem is why sda sometimes doesn't get detected.  Can you
> post the result of failing dmesg?  If you've got a second computer,
> doing netconsole (Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt) is the best
> way.  If not, just take a picture of the screen while ata1 detection is
> in progress.

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