On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:09:13AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:44:07PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > The ck804 code in the LB tree does not properly initialize all SATA ports. > > The situation is currently as follows for boards with 4 SATA ports: > > > > * sata controller 0: both ports 100% dead (no drives detected) > > * sata controller 1: port 0 ok; port 1 sees drive but times out when trying > > to access it > > Can you elaborate how you tested this?
Uhm, boot with 4 drives in the machine? It's immediately obvious from the boot logs (and the long delays for the drives that are half-detected). > Here's what I was able to test on the ASUS A8N-E. The ports are numbered 1-4 > on the PCB, not sure how that maps to your numbers above. I used a 40 GB > SATA disk with 'IDE_DISK_POLL_DELAY = 1' in FILO as well as the 5 > seconds spin-up delay patch from the wiki. > > Without patches: > - Port 1, 2 don't work. > - Port 3: Works (hde in FILO), I can boot from the SATA disk. > - Port 4: Works (hdg in FILO), I can boot from the SATA disk. > > No change in behaviour with your patch applied. Ports 1/2 broken, 3/4 work. Did you check that the SATA controller PCI ids are the same? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
