Bug#420293: Jmicron harddrive Controller issue on boot

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

reassign 420293 linux-2.6
thanks

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:22:10PM +1000, Onzone wrote:
> Package: kernel
>
> Version: 2.6.18-4-amd64 and 32bit
>
> Hardware: Gigabyte 965P-S3 e.g. any motherboard im assuming that uses  
> the jmicron controller.
>
> Hardware Setup: 3 x HDD, 2 drivers are sata2 drives and 1 drive is a IDE  
> drive, all these drives use the jmicron controller.
>
> Hello,
>
> On boot up debian will sometimes load the jmicron361 driver and on other  
> times will load the jmicron363 driver.
>
> This issue will cause the system to get stuck with the "control d" as it  
> cannot locate the IDE when it has used the 361 driver after several  
> reboots it will use the 363 driver and the issue has gone until another  
> reboot and the 361 driver has been loaded again than more reboots will  
> be needed until the 363 driver has been loaded.
>
> This issue is only with the IDE drive not being picked up by debian, i  
> should say debian still loads the drive but changes from hdf5 to hdb5  
> depending on what driver is loaded 363 or 361 but as you know the fstab  
> will have to be changed every time but you cannot do this as you do not  
> know which driver will be loaded.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz