Bug#515201: linux-image: sata drive connected via marvell controller crashes
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From: Mark Poks <markpoks@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: linux-image: sata drive connected via marvell controller crashes
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:30:28 +0100
On 10/25/2009 04:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 19:35 +0100, Mark Poks wrote:
>
>> Package: linux-image
>> Severity: important
>>
>
> I'm sorry for the delay in answering your bug report.
>
>
>> i have ASUS M2N32 WS Professionall mainboard with latest BIOS revision 2001.
>> it has two controllers for sata:
>> - standard (nvidia)
>> - marvell
>>
>> and also i have two sata II disks:
>> 1 - with Debian 32-bit, kernel 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem - plugged in standard sata
>> 2 - with Debian 64-bit, kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 - plugged in marvell sata
>>
>> the standard sata controller works fine, but i have problems with the marvell.
>>
>> * when booting disk 1 (disk 2 is connected to marvell controller) system does
>> not boot up correctly. it holds-on - see photo:
>>
>> http://develop.euroimpex.pl/~marek/boot/dsc00226.jpg
>>
>> last few lines of long display in a loop if waiting longer..
>>
>> * when booting disk 1, with disk 2 unplugged, system starts fine ofcourse,
>> but when plugin disk 2 to marvell (when system is on), the message
>> 'Disabling IRQ #16' appears in console and system hangs-up.
>>
>> * i tried also bootup from disk 2 (marvell controller), the grub started,
>> kernel started to doing it's job, but it crashed - see photo:
>>
>> http://develop.euroimpex.pl/~marek/boot/dsc00227.jpg
>>
>> maybe i am doing something wrong? maybe my mainboard has a bug, or maybe
>> it's something wrong in kernel? or maybe i have badly configured IRQs in the
>> BIOS? - not sure
>>
>
> IRQ configuration should be automatic, the exception being when there is
> a BIOS bug that we need to override.
>
> I believe that this was fixed in linux-2.6 version 2.6.26-14, which was
> included in stable update 5.0.1. Please can you report whether this bug
> is now fixed?
>
> Ben.
>
>
I have latest lenny amd64 version (release 5.0.3 as i remember). it is
provided with kernel 2.6.26-19lenny1. marvell still does not work. in
few days i will test it with kernel 2.6.30-8~bpo50+1.
Mark.
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