From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Other Problems with Marvell Driver - 7042 (2.6.23)... Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4728A816.8020608@garzik.org> References: <45ED682A.9040408@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Morrison, Tom" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Morrison, Tom wrote: > I am running the 'latest' kernel retrieved from Kumar Gala's > Powerpc git tree (mainly because I am running on a MPC8548 board) > and it appears to be in the full 2.6.23 version while the sata_mv > driver version seems to be 1.01. > > I have searched the archives, and there has been some discussion > of a regression in the Marvell driver, but I seem to have a > different symptom from Olaf's (I am not running a 64bit kernel - > and I am *not* running with large (36bit) physical and resources - > so I wouldn't have the same type of IOMMU issues) > > Below in the error output (using ATA_DEBUG) the driver sees the > two drives (3 partitions on /dev/sda & 2 partitions on /dev/sdb) > and apparently sets up everything correctly for standard access... > > But, when I try to mount a partition - it freezes up and gets I/O > errors? > Can someone give me any hints of things to try? First you need to try 2.6.23.1 rather than 2.6.23, because it contains a critical sata_mv fix. Jeff