Otavio Salvador wrote: >João Pinheiro <MailingLists@JoaoPinheiro.org> writes: > > > >>I'm having a few problems with a SATA hard drive during the sarge >>(kernel v 2.6.8) boot sequence. The HD is a 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax10 >>and it's connected to a PCMCIA SATA adapter (I'm on a laptop and the HD >>is on an external housing). >> >>The boot sequence recognizes the HD but it times out during write back >>and freezes right afterwards. >> >>Is there any fix for this problem? >> >> > >Well, first let me try to figure out what are you really doing: > > - Are you using Debian Installer or sarge installed system? > - Could you please provide the output of "(lspci ; lspci -n) | sort"? > - Could you please provide the output of "lsmod"? > >Looks like a kernel related issue and might be good if you could try >to use a new snapshot of Debian Installer (in case you're using it) >and check if it works. Otherwise, if you're using a installed system, >might be good to try to update your kernel version and check if it >solves your problem. > >See ya! > > > I'm on a sarge installed system. The problem that I'm facing is with an external SATA hard drive that's connected to a PCMCIA card. I installed the system on a regular ATA laptop hard drive so I didn't face this problem until I first plugged the external hard drive in. I'm not home at the moment so I can't really provide you with the output right away. I can, however, tell you that the card uses a Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATALink PCMCIA chipset. I do believe that this is a kernel-related issue as well, I simply posted this email to both in hope that someone would have run into a similar problem in the past. I'm going to try the latest kernel snapshot as soon as I get back home so I'll keep you updated on this. Thanks, João Pinheiro
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