Another sata failure report

[Morten Bo Johansen <mojo@mbjnet.dk>]

Hi,

With this iso image

  sid-amd64-netinst.iso    11-Feb-2005 09:01   193M

I was actually able to perform an installation of the base system. With
previous images, either my sata disk was not detected or I got a kernel
panic during the first boot of the installer. So this was a step in the
right direction.  However my happiness did not last for long: After
having finished the installation by answering yes to installing grub in
the master boot record, I booted the system only to find that grub was
not installed correctly. I had to use a grub boot diskette to reinstall
grub to make my old system bootable. I loaded my old system and updated
menu.lst to include the newly installed system and rebooted. Booting the
system I just installed from the iso image above, I got:

   ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xEA00 irq 11
   ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xEA08 irq 11
   ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient
   ata1 failed to respond (30 sec)
   scsi0 : sata_nv
   ..
   pivot_root: no such file or directory
   /sbin/init: 431: Cannot open dev/console: No such file or directory
   Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!


Here is some output from dmesg from my working Ubuntu AMD64 system:
   
   
   libata version 1.10 loaded.
   sata_nv version 0.5
   ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] enabled at IRQ 22
   ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 22
   PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
   ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xEA00 irq 22
   ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xEA08 irq 22
   ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f
   ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 234441648 sectors: lba48
   nv_sata: Primary device added
   nv_sata: Primary device removed
   nv_sata: Secondary device removed
   ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
   scsi0 : sata_nv
   ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
   scsi1 : sata_nv
   elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
     Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3120827AS       Rev: 3.42
     Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
   SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
   SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
   SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
   SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
    /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 > p3 p4
   Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
   kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
   EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
   EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal


I can provide the whole dmesg log and output from lspci if needed.


Thanks,

Morten