From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750875AbWAAQnt (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:43:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750843AbWAAQnt (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:43:49 -0500 Received: from tower.bj-ig.de ([194.127.182.2]:64657 "EHLO fs.bj-ig.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbWAAQnt (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:43:49 -0500 Message-ID: <43B806C7.5000607@bj-ig.de> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:43:51 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ralf_M=FCller?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel panic with 2.6.15-rc7 + libata1 patch References: <43B724BA.90405@bj-ig.de> <43B7EA0A.7040805@bj-ig.de> <20060101145702.GV3811@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20060101145702.GV3811@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivered-For: jgarzik@pobox.com X-Spambayes-Classification: ham; 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk schrieb: > Is this problem present with older kernel (e.g. 2.6.14.x) or is it a > newly introduced bug? It is a newly installed system - 2.6.15-rc6 has been the first kernel at all on this machine - this kernel crashed too. After that I upgraded to 2.6.15-rc7 - it crashed as written in the initial mail. Next was to apply the libata1 patch. It did not give a kernel panic but shut down the SATA subsystem (the hardware is a Promise SATA II 300 TX4 PDC 20718 and an onboard Promise SATA II 150 PDC20579) - non of the six attached disks has been accessible anymore after calling hddtemp on one of the disks which have been in standby. Calling hddtemp on a spinning disk works without a problem. A further problem is that calling "hdparm -C" _always_ give "drive state is: standby" - even when the disks are clearly active. Maybe this indicates something to you. I can try to downgrade to 2.6.14 if you like. I started with 2.6.15 because I have been told it is the first kernel which is able to deal with "hdparm -S x" / "hdparm -y" for SATA devices. > I've put Jeff into the Cc of this email since he is the SATA maintainer. Thanks. Regards Ralf