From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81372DDDEC for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:25:19 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Update on: MPC85xx git/MPC8548cds - PCI/PCIE problemS with Marvel SATA driver... From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: "Morrison, Tom" In-Reply-To: References: <8B9F6546-0D85-4AD0-A196-25F0F9C1A5A0@freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:25:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1172305505.1902.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Geary Sean-R60898 , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Zhang Wei-r63237 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:57 -0500, Morrison, Tom wrote: > All, > > I have yet to successfully gone through full initialization / > registration of this driver for this board. > > I have both a Marvell PCI SATA Card (with 6042 chip) > and a Marvell PCI Express SATA card (with 7042 chip). > > PCI/6042 Chip Marvel SATA Card > ============================== > On PCI Bus - the card is probed, and finds the SATA drive - > goes through an ata add device process - up to adding scsi device - > even goes all the way to checking the file system -and lastly says: > > SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, > sda: unknown partition table > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda > > After full boot (I am nfs mounting my root file system until I get > this working), I try to mount drive - no good - I can't mount it > (it also doesn't create a /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 device - I assume > that if it knew the partitioning table - it would actually create > these devices and Yes, I have ms-dos file system support compiled in? The above looks like it's working and you don't have a proper partition table on the disk or you haven't compiled in support for the right type of partition map (this is different from the filesystem type).... Make sure you enable MS-DOS partition type support in addition to file system type. Ben.