Greets, gentoo-users, what about these msgs in dmesg?
I get some repetitions of this block: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata1: EH complete ---- then this: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ---- After this no more SATA-related stuff in dmesg. /dev/sda works OK so far, I just wonder if this points to any problem I should take care of. # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)) #3 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 22 09:45:37 CET 2007 It's a P4900M2 Mainboard from MSI "lspci -v" shows this: 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 5337 (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at dc00 [size=8] I/O ports at d880 [size=4] I/O ports at d800 [size=8] I/O ports at d480 [size=4] I/O ports at d400 [size=16] I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 7255 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1] I/O ports at fc00 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 No explicit SATA-controller mentioned here. I use sata_via, should I disable it and use sata_ahci instead? I read somewhere that newer VIA-SATA-controllers use AHCI, don't know if mine is "newer". Maybe I just compile another kernel with only AHCI-support to try that. Thanks, Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list