Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mark Lord wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe its the same, but lemme paste it for sure, yes: [ 26.339926] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [ 26.340119] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: Chris Rankin wrote: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1:

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that one came from me, but it also gets over 14,000 hits on google. Now Jeff, here is the strange part. That error was killing me, many times an hour and eventually crashing completely

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe its the same, but lemme paste it for sure, yes: [ 26.339926] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [ 26.340119] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 26.350129] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alan Cox wrote: not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used. We don't see very many libata problems at the distro level and they for the most part boil down to - error messages

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: .. Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx' number when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00? I've turned on an option that says something about using the bios for device access this build, but I'll

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alan Cox wrote: not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used. We don't see very many libata problems at the distro level and they for the most part boil down to - error messages

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx' number when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00? I've turned on an option that says something about using the bios for device access this build, but I'll

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Gene Heskett writes: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alan Cox wrote: As slight change here, I was going to use the same .config as 2.6.24-rc8, but just discovered that neither rc8 nor final is finding the drivers for my

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Florian Attenberger wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:13:21 -0500 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to reboot early this morning due to a freezeup, and I had a bunch of these in the messages log: == Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel: [42461.915961

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: For starters, enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR. That could stand to be moved or renamed, it is well buried in the menu for the REAL scsi stuffs, which I don't have any of. Enabled building now. The SCSI

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx' number when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00? I've turned on an option that says

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alan Cox wrote: That could stand to be moved or renamed, it is well buried in the menu for the REAL scsi stuffs, which I don't have any of. Yes you do - USB storage and ATAPI are SCSI By the linux software definition maybe. But I've defined scsi as that which uses

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: [    0.00] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override This is from the dmesg of my previous post. Can anyone tell me what it actually means? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark? As a test, I tried rebooting to the latest fedora kernel and found it

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Zan Lynx wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:50 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Unfortunately we also see

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
only bootable drive, and its raising hell with things, about 6 hardware reset initiated reboots so far today since 6:15 am. If it persists I'll go see if Circuit City still has any pata drives left as this mobo won't boot from a sata card. Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Gene Heskett writes: On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. What, and keep all us other interested people

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: While reading this msg as it came back, I locked up again and rebooted to 2.6.24, and got lucky (maybe) as the attached dmesg will show quite a few instances of this LNNNGG before the nvidia driver is loaded to taint the kernel. Have fun guys

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote: [ 64.037975] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 64.038102] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x65 [ 64.038227] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:58:89:3d:07/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 45056 in [ 64.038229] res

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Zan Lynx wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:50 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Unfortunately we also see: [ 48.285456] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Richard Heck wrote: Daniel Barkalow wrote: Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Building this and installing it along with the appropriate initrd (which might be handled by Fedora's install scripts) Or mine, which I've been using

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Kasper Sandberg wrote: [...] We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it. Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine. The nv driver has suffered bit rot or something since the FC2 days when it COULD run a 19 crt at 1600x1200,

pata_via question.

2007-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
Running 2.6.24-rc6 here. I just installed a combo card, 3 sata ports, one pata port, VIA VT6421 chip on it. I do not have an ide drive attached to it, and my bios does not acknowledge the presence of the card or the sata drive attached, meaning I have to keep a ide drive for use as the /boot