From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [2.6.18,19] SATA boot problems (ICH6/ICH6W) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:13:59 +0900 Message-ID: <45889C67.900@gmail.com> References: <200612111003.39928.kovid@theory.caltech.edu> <4588877D.1000400@gmail.com> <200612191800.18624.kovid@theory.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:28652 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWLTCOM (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:14:12 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so2040051uga for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:14:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200612191800.18624.kovid@theory.caltech.edu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Kovid Goyal Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Kovid Goyal wrote: > Yes going back to 2.6.17 does fix it. Also windows and various LiveCDs boot > without problems. > > Here is the output > smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, I couldn't find anything indicating hardware problem from the smartctl output. Ergh... The 0xff timing out is fixed in the devel tree. The problem is why sda sometimes doesn't get detected. Can you post the result of failing dmesg? If you've got a second computer, doing netconsole (Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt) is the best way. If not, just take a picture of the screen while ata1 detection is in progress. -- tejun