From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262242AbULCOyn (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:54:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262245AbULCOyn (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:54:43 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28070 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262242AbULCOya (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:54:30 -0500 Message-ID: <41B07E11.6030704@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:54:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: EC CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata ICH5 2.4.28 kernel oops References: <20041203125340.563FC1734B4@postfix3-1.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20041203125340.563FC1734B4@postfix3-1.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org EC wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting trouble to upgrade from 2.4.27 to 2.4.28 since kernel oopses on > start. That seems to be related to libata and my SATA configuration. I'm > using a plain vanilla kernel (no patches). > > I have a Supermicro P4SCI with a PIV (SATA chipset ICH5), latest bios (1.1), > one disk (SATA), BIOS configured to SATA Only (but enhanced mode does the > same. Same kernel configuration used to work with 2.4.27 with the libata > patch. I'm not sure I'm supposed to apply the new 2.4.28 libata patch but > anyway with or without it kernel crashes about here : > > ... > SCSI subsystem driver Revision : 1.0... > ata1 : SATA max UDMA/133 : cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdam 0xF000 irq 14 > ata1 : dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133... > ata1 : dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 > Unable to handle Kernel NULL pointer dereference.... > ... Give us the oops. See REPORTING-BUGS in the kernel tree for more info. Jeff