Bug#528595: linux-image-2.6-686: stat_via does not find SATA discs

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:23:02PM +0100, Jon Thackray wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6-686
> Version: 2.6.26+17+lenny1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I am trying to use a VT6421 card to allow me to attach SATA and PATA
> discs. I began with the oldstable (etch) release using kernel 2.6.18,
> but found that this didn't support PATA (see attached dmesg and disc
> file for this kernel to see that it does support SATA). I then
> realised that PATA support wasn't merged into sata_via until 2.6.19,
> and so upgraded to stable (lenny). I then found that although it could
> now find a pair of PATA discs, it could no longer find a SATA disc
> (even though the BIOS found it and reverting to 2.6.18 finds it). See
> attached dmesg and disc files for details on this. See also meminfo
> and cpuinfo for the 2.6.26 setup. Here also is the result of lspci -v

Hi,
The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based
on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and tell
us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream
to the kernel.org developers.

The 2.6.32 kernel is available from packages.debian.org and can
be installed in both Debian stable, testing and unstable
installations.

Thanks,
        Moritz