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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: aaltoset@cs.helsinki.fi
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AHCI detection issues
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:24:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457E12DE.8070302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BMKOaDGU.1163330585.9395520.aaltoset@cs.helsinki.fi>

aaltoset@cs.helsinki.fi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently upgraded my system and I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe
> motherboard. It has an Intel ICH7 chipset where the second SATA
> connector is used for a Sil4723 hardware RAID device. The Sil4723 has
> two SATA ports using the shared ICH7 port.
> 
> I have one Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA drive connected to the first
> ICH7 port but the Linux kernel falsely detects another drive on ata2,
> which I believe to be on the Sil4723. With 2.6.17 this isn't a big
> problem, it just appears in dmesg but doesn't cause any problems.
> However, with 2.6.18 and later, the non-existent drive takes painfully
> long to detect and this appears in dmesg:
> 
> [   36.577431] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> [   66.506384] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
> [   66.506389] ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x104)
> [   74.340464] ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient
> [   97.249998] ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs)
> [   97.250030] ata2: COMRESET failed (device not ready)
> [   97.250061] ata2: hardreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
> [  103.108459] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> [  103.108517] ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 640 sectors: LBA
> [  103.108520] ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 1
> [  103.108589] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133

Yeap, that one is on-board storage processor from Silicon Image.  It's
something similar to Port Multiplier and emulates ATA device but not
well enough apparently.  It on my todo list.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-12 11:23 AHCI detection issues aaltoset
2006-12-12  2:24 ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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