Bug 112880

Summary:	ata_piix driver no longer loads/initializes properly
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Murlin Wenzel <mwenzel>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Jens Axboe <axboe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Third Party Developer/Partner	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Murlin Wenzel 2005-08-24 23:28:06 UTC

As of Beta2 the ata_piix driver will not finish loading or initializing.  During
install the system will stop "Searching for info file"  The system is not hard
hanging.  I can switch to consoles alt-f3 and alt-f4.  On f3 console, the last
message is 'insmod ..ata_piix'

In Beta 1, the driver would load and report an error on the secondary port, and
finish loading.  I can go back to Beta 1 and get whatever logs would be helpful.
 It appears that the driver is hanging on the secondary port.

Comment 1 Jens Axboe 2005-08-25 07:11:48 UTC

If you switch to a console and issue dmesg, do you see anything interesting?

Comment 2 Murlin Wenzel 2005-08-25 14:53:33 UTC

Unfortunately, the boot process has not even progressed far enough to get a
functioning console.  I did copy the following lines from the alt-f4 console
when booting beta1.  I think this would be interesting.
.
.
.
1.  Attached SCSI generic sg0 at SCSI0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5 (this
should be the cdrom - primary ide master)
2.  ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x488 irq 15
3.  ATA: abnormal status 0xFF on Port 0x177
4.  ata2: disabling port
5.  scsi1: ata_piix
6.  Losing some ticks checking if CPU frequency changed
.
.
.
boot continues normally

In the case of booting beta2, the last line on the same console is #1 and
nothing further happens.  Even in beta 1 the driver appears to be unhappy with
the secondary port probing.

Comment 3 Jens Axboe 2005-08-25 14:55:26 UTC

Hannes, do you know if we changed some of the piix/ahci loading stuff between
beta 1 and 2?

Comment 4 Murlin Wenzel 2005-08-26 22:58:40 UTC

Good news(probably)  Beta 3 now behaves like Beta 1 did.  The module loads,
reports the abnormal status and goes on with the install.  I've verified this
with both x86_64 and x86 versions.  If it stays this way, it appears to be fixed.

Comment 5 Jens Axboe 2005-08-27 08:06:07 UTC

Closing as beta2 anomaly, then. Thanks for testing beta3.