From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Laurent CORBES {Caf'} (by way of Laurent CORBES {Caf'}" Subject: PROBLEM: ata_piix disk detection 2.6.18-rc5 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:08:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20060828150825.7e32a8d2@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from republique.smartjog.net ([83.243.17.194]:29198 "EHLO mx.republique.smartjog.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750793AbWH1NIu (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:08:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.republique.smartjog.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B5DC02F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:08:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx.republique.smartjog.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08358-02-8 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:08:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (lcorbes.republique.smartjog.lan [192.168.0.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.republique.smartjog.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7E1C02D for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:08:25 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, Not really a severe bug but it can hide other problems. I have a Dell optiplex with a ICH5 chipset. When I load the ata_piix module and there is no drive plugged in, the driver try to contact the Hdd and fail. This was not a problem with 2.6.17. Linux laurent 2.6.18-rc5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 28 14:19:16 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 17 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 17 scsi1 : ata_piix ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata1: reset failed, giving up scsi2 : ata_piix ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata2: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata2: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata2: reset failed, giving up Thanks, regards. -- http://glot.net/, caf@glot.net Cycom http://www.rezal.net/, Epidemic http://epidemic.glot.net/