On 04/28/2010 09:30 PM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
please don't top post! :-)Answer at the end: Anand Sivaram wrote:This is not a kernel bug, but the way debian uses drivers. There are two different drivers in the kernel now. Old ide drivers and newer pata drivers. Old ide drivers are going to get deprecated. For some reason debian stock kernel is taking only ide drivers. I have seen this with both my desktop (ide amd74xx used, pata_amd is not at all compiled) and laptop (both ide piix and pata ata_pii modules are compiled, but ide piix used) Because of that my hard drive is shown as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda with the debian stock kernel. What I did was to compile a custom kernel by including only the pata drivers. Now with this custom kernel everything is fine and consistent. 2010/4/28 Γιώργος Πάλλας<gp...@ccf.auth.gr>:Hi to everybody! I just got a WD caviar blue, with the classic IDE interface and tried to connect it to my debian squeeze pc which already has a WD SATA device, where the OS lives. The problem is that 2.6.32-3 does not recognize the disk and although I'm not an expert, I tend to think that it is a kernel bug. I booted with 2.6.30-2-686 and it sees the disk: [ 1.560374] hda: WDC WD3200AAJB-56R1A0, ATA DISK drive About the IDE controller, here's what lspci -v says: on both 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 : 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H Motherboard Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1] I/O ports at 0170 [size=8] I/O ports at 0374 [size=1] I/O ports at f900 [size=16] Kernel driver in use: ATIIXP_IDE The only differences between lspci -v for 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 are the following: # diff 2.6.30-2-lspci 2.6.32-3-lspci 23c23 < Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver ---Kernel driver in use: pcieport38c38 < Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver ---Kernel driver in use: pcieport95d94 < Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus where the pcieport differences refer to 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) and 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) The lshw utility shows almost perfect match between 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 with the difference that under the ide section which is identical in both kernels: *-ide description: IDE interface product: SB600 IDE vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 14.1 bus info: p...@0000:00:14.1 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: ide bus_master configuration: driver=ATIIXP_IDE latency=32 resources: irq:16 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f900(size=16) *-ide description: IDE Channel 0 physical id: 0 bus info: i...@0 logical name: ide0 clock: 66MHz but in 2.6.32 nothing disk relevant follows, where with 2.6.30, the disk section follows: *-disk description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD3200AAJB-56R1A0 vendor: Western Digital physical id: 0 bus info: i...@0.0 logical name: /dev/hda version: 01.03E01 serial: WD-WCAV2H175667 size: 298GiB (320GB) capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: mode=udma5 signature=08040000 smart=on bit strange, isn't it? Any ideas? As well as that, I can't report it via reportbug, because with: reportbug linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 I always get Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? after a couple of minutes... GiorgosThat means that there is no way to get the disk working by using the stock kernel? It is also strange that the drivers are there in the 2.6.32, but they do not seem to work: [ 1.256871] atiixp 0000:00:14.1: IDE controller (0x1002:0x438c rev 0x00) [ 1.256894] ATIIXP_IDE 0000:00:14.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 1.256909] atiixp 0000:00:14.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later [ 1.256915] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf900-0xf907 [ 1.256923] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 1.265866] ide0: no devices on the port Any kernel expert to explain what exactly is happening here?
Anyway, I tried 2.6.32-4 from sid and the disk was recognized at once. So, it must have been a bug, though it struck me for passing into testing...
G.
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