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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: sziemba@ecn.purdue.edu, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8936] New: sata_promise 2.09 fails to identify ST3400832AS
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:21:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824222147.230263de.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-8936-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:14:49 -0700 (PDT) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8936
> 
>            Summary: sata_promise 2.09 fails to identify ST3400832AS
>            Product: IO/Storage
>            Version: 2.5
>      KernelVersion: 2.6.23-rc1
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: high
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Serial ATA
>         AssignedTo: jgarzik@pobox.com
>         ReportedBy: sziemba@ecn.purdue.edu
> 
> 
> Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.22 
> 
> Using git bisect I have identified the first bad commit.
> 
> linux-2.6# git bisect good
> a77720ad0a4049e4bc6355e4febf899966a48222 is first bad commit
> commit a77720ad0a4049e4bc6355e4febf899966a48222
> Author: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
> Date:   Tue Jul 3 01:09:05 2007 +0200
> 
> Distribution: Debian etch (stable)
> 
> Hardware Environment: Sun Fire x4100
> (http://www.crocom.com.pl/ulotki/X4100.pdf)
> 8 ST3400832AS drives connected to Promise FastTrak TX4200
> 2 ST973401LSUN72G drives connected to on board Fusion SAS
> 
> Software Environment:
> Problem Description:  
> 
> I will attach dmesg output, hdparm and lspci.  I have tried acpi=noirq, noapic,
>  irqpoll and pci=routeirq.  The drives connected to promise controller fail to
> identify.  The dmesg for rc-3 with sata_promise 2.09 is truncated as the kernel
> loops indefinitely.  Replacing sata_promise.c with version 2.08 from previous
> kernels allows 2.6.23-rc3 to boot (with some warnings during compile/boot).
> 
> Steps to reproduce:  Boot the machine with the promise card connected.
> 

Thanks for doing the bisection - it really helps.

Michal, one for the regression file, please.

Mikael: tsk ;)

       reply	other threads:[~2007-08-25  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-8936-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2007-08-25  5:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-25 17:12 [Bugme-new] [Bug 8936] New: sata_promise 2.09 fails to identify ST3400832AS Mikael Pettersson
2007-08-27 22:08 ` Andrew Morton

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