From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: JMicron JMB361 sporadically failing to initialize from at least 2.6.18.4 to 2.6.22-rc2 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:56:17 -0400 Message-ID: <46523FB1.9000000@garzik.org> References: <76366b180705211748u670e3084j8df5246eca82a925@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47205 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756965AbXEVA4T (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 20:56:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <76366b180705211748u670e3084j8df5246eca82a925@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Paprocki Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Andrew Paprocki wrote: > I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard which has onboard Intel ICH8 > raid as well as a "Gigabyte" (rebranded JMicron) chipset for 2 > separate SATA ports. When I boot the machine, it completely > sporadically fails to initialize the JMB361 chipset which it detects, > claiming "dma_base is invalid". When it works (~20% of the time), it > will correctly detect the chip and all drives connected to it. It > feels like a race condition.. What happens when you disabled the old-IDE driver, and use libata? Jeff