Re: 2.6.0-test9 SATA and 1394 problems

[Erik Steffl]

Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have been running 2.6.0-t9 on an Asus A7V600 VIA VT600-based MB for a 
> few days now. All seems relatively stable, which is good. A few issues 
> to report, though, the most serious of which is that my SATA controller 
> (VIA 8237 Southbridge) is only detected properly when the machine is 
> fully power-cycled (that is, plug out the back, not just soft-off). When 
> that is done, all seems well and the drives run fine. If you reboot the 
> machine without a full power-cycle, the SATA controller is detected but 
> no drives are found. Drives are new Seagate 7200.7 SATA 120Gig. I've 
> tried disabling acpi, setting pci=noacpi and setting pci=usepirqmask as 
> suggested in the acpi startup messages, but none of this helped.

  I have similar problem with intel D865PERL motherboard. only it 
happens rarely. It seems that _sometime_ when I restart system the BIOS 
does not recognize SATA drives (it waits for a fairly long time), linux 
then does not recognize SATA drives either.

  it doesn't seem to be linux specific (IIRC it happened when rebooting 
win xp pro as well).

	erik

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