Solution -> sata_sil + Maxtor problem

[Rasmus Melgaard <rme@image.dk>]

Thanks David, goggle on!

Well, that did it! I narrowed it a bit.

For anybody else with similar problems
 - I have a Asus A7V (VIA chipset, early revision 1.01 of MB), absolutely 
latest bios was installed. 
 - Silicon Image 3112 pci-sata-controller (bios 4250). 
 - Maxtor 160Gb SATA disk (6Y160M0), but the problem is probably not related 
to the drive.

 - To solve problem below, disable "Byte Merge" PCI-feature in the bios. 
Silicon Image 3112 doesn't work with it (in Linux).

Everythings peacy for now, what was I thinking of enabling byte-merge feature 
in the bios, I knew it was buggy. 

/Rasmus Melgaard


On Wednesday 24 November 2004 10:26, David Greaves wrote:
> Just for the Google of it...
>
> I had almost exactly this problem with a cheap plugin sata_sil on 2.6.9
> on Maxtor 250Gb drives with an old Asus A7V133 motherboard and solved it
> by upgrading the motherboard BIOS and/or resetting the BIOS values to
> defaults. I narrowed it down to PCI bus settings.
>
> David
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Rasmus Melgaard wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a IDE/SATA problem. I have a Silicon Image 3112
> >> sata-controller with a Maxtor 160 Gb drive connected. Controller and
> >> drive is detected in the kernel-boot process, but an error happens
> >> during boot, I think the linux driver gets an response it doesn't
> >> expect.
> >>
> >> I'm using for testing the mm-kernel: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1. Every thing seems
> >> to work in Windows, but since I mainly use Linux (Gentoo), I would
> >> like it to work here.
> >>
> >> Does anybody have an ideer of how to proceed to solve this problem ?
> >> Mvh
> >> Rasmus
> >>
> >> Important part of log:
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus scsi1 : sata_sil
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus scsi2 : sata_sil
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0
> >> Rev: YAR5
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Type:   Direct-Access
> >> ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr
> >> sectors (163929 MB)
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>ata1:
> >> command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x60
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata1: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
> >> DataRequest }
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Current sda: sense = 70 10
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE882E087
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE882E087
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE882E087
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd8
> >> host_stat 0x61
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata1: status=0xd8 { Busy }
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Current sda: sense = 70 10
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> >> Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> >
> > It's quite clearly a device error...  Try upgrading your system and
> > card BIOS, try switching cables, try booting with "noapic" or
> > "acpi=off" or "pci=biosirq" or something like that...
> >
> >     Jeff
> >
> >
> >
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