sata_uli fails to see harddisks on an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board

sata_uli fails to see harddisks on an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board, the sata_uli driver recognizes the onboard 
SATA controller (PCI ID 10b9:5289 rev 10, Subsystem 1849:5289), but fails to 
see an attached harddisk (the BIOS identifies the harddisk correctly, so a 
hardware failure is unlikely). sata_uli apparently sees _something_ is 
attached, but doesn't get further. dmesg says:

libata version 1.20 loaded.
sata_uli 0000:00:12.1: version 0.5
GSI 18 sharing vector 0xD1 and IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE082 bmdma 0xD880 irq 209
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD888 irq 209
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
scsi0 : sata_uli
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi1 : sata_uli

No disks are found, even though the link (on ata1) is detected.

Verified both with an x86 and an x86_64 kernel, and both 2.6.15-rc5 and 
2.6.15-rc5-mm2.

Any ideas?

Re: sata_uli fails to see harddisks on an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:

> On an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board, the sata_uli driver recognizes the onboard
> SATA controller (PCI ID 10b9:5289 rev 10, Subsystem 1849:5289), but fails to
> see an attached harddisk (the BIOS identifies the harddisk correctly, so a
> hardware failure is unlikely). sata_uli apparently sees _something_ is
> attached, but doesn't get further. dmesg says:
>
> libata version 1.20 loaded.
> sata_uli 0000:00:12.1: version 0.5
> GSI 18 sharing vector 0xD1 and IRQ 18
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE082 bmdma 0xD880 irq 209
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD888 irq 209
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
> scsi0 : sata_uli
> ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
> scsi1 : sata_uli
>
> No disks are found, even though the link (on ata1) is detected.
>
> Verified both with an x86 and an x86_64 kernel, and both 2.6.15-rc5 and
> 2.6.15-rc5-mm2.
>
> Any ideas?

I've seen this and thought that it was MSI interrupt related.
I have suggested disabling CONFIG_PCI_MSI, but (iirc) that
did not fix the problem for someone who tested it.
I'll fiddle with it some... no promises.

-- 
~Randy

Re: sata_uli fails to see harddisks on an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:01, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board, the sata_uli driver recognizes the onboard 
> SATA controller (PCI ID 10b9:5289 rev 10, Subsystem 1849:5289), but fails to 
> see an attached harddisk (the BIOS identifies the harddisk correctly, so a 
> hardware failure is unlikely). sata_uli apparently sees _something_ is 
> attached, but doesn't get further. dmesg says:
> 
> libata version 1.20 loaded.
> sata_uli 0000:00:12.1: version 0.5
> GSI 18 sharing vector 0xD1 and IRQ 18
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE082 bmdma 0xD880 irq 209
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0xD888 irq 209
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113)
> scsi0 : sata_uli
> ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
> scsi1 : sata_uli
> 
> No disks are found, even though the link (on ata1) is detected.
> 
> Verified both with an x86 and an x86_64 kernel, and both 2.6.15-rc5 and 
> 2.6.15-rc5-mm2.

I have exactly the same board and 2.6.15-rc5/x86-64 works for me (no problems
with detecting SATA drives on SATA1 ports).  The drives are jumper-forced to
SATA1, though, and I haven't tried the SATA2 controller.

Greetings,
Rafael


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