Re: HDD problem, software bug, bios bug, or hardware ?

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 05:29:50PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote:
> It has two states, "Automatic" and "Disabled", but anything
> OS-controlled (such as virtualization) has the same two states. It's
> set to "Automatic".

Hmm, so it should be enabled then.

> I can probably boot back to a 3.2 where it was working, what ACPI
> debugging would be useful to you from a good kernel?

Hmm, if you say it worked before 3.2, then it didn't use ACPI the way it
does today so that it fails on your box.

Here's what I got on my box:

[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f6620 00014 (v00 GBT   )
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 00000000cfff3000 00038 (v01 GBT    NVDAACPI 42302E31 NVDA 01010101)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 00000000cfff3040 00074 (v01 GBT    NVDAACPI 42302E31 NVDA 01010101)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 00000000cfff30c0 04C8E (v01 GBT    NVDAACPI 00001000 MSFT 0100000C)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 00000000cfff0000 00040
[    0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 00000000cfff7e40 004CE (v01 PTLTD  POWERNOW 00000001  LTP 00000001)
[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET 00000000cfff8340 00038 (v01 GBT    NVDAACPI 42302E31 NVDA 00000098)
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 00000000cfff8380 0003C (v01 GBT    NVDAACPI 42302E31 NVDA 01010101)
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 00000000cfff7d80 00098 (v01 GBT    NVDAACPI 42302E31 NVDA 01010101)

and the SSDT table contains, when disassembled, all those _PCT and _PSS
objects. (I guessed it by the OEM Table ID "POWERNOW" :-)) They look
something like this:

        Name (_PCT, Package (0x02)
        {
            ResourceTemplate ()
            {
                Register (FFixedHW, 
                    0x40,               // Bit Width
                    0x00,               // Bit Offset
                    0x00000000C0010062, // Address
                    ,)
            }, 
	...

each in a _PR - processor - scope. (Boy, do I hate ACPI!).

Now, if we look at your ACPI tables:

[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f7170 00014 (v00 GBT   )
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 00000000c7de3000 00034 (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 00000000c7de3040 00074 (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 00000000c7de30c0 064A2 (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 00001000 MSFT 03000000)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 00000000c7de0000 00040
[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET 00000000c7de9640 00038 (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 00000098)
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 00000000c7de9680 0003C (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101)
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 00000000c7de9580 00084 (v01 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101)

the one missing is the SSDT table so either your BIOS is not providing
the it, or P-states are hidden in some other table or ...

Your BIOS is from 2008. Can you get a newer one from Gigabyte and update
it, if possible?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.