Re: Failed to detect SSD when installing Bullseye

[Nikolay Velyurov]

Hi Bjørn,

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 4:38 PM Bjørn Mork  wrote:

> Great!  Glad it could be resolved as easily as that.
>
> Probably a firmware bug. I don't know.  Such issues are pretty common,
> and disabling the IOMMU is the first thing you should try.  Sometimes
> it just doesn't play well with some other feature.  If you don't need
> it then you might as well just disable it.
>
> My Thinkpad fails to suspend if I enable both IOMMU and TPM 2.0.  One of
> them is OK, but not both.  Go figure.  This is https://bugs.debian.org/949020
>
> For some background:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/intel-iommu.html
>
> There are also a number of other options than "off" you could try if you
> want to play with it:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
>
> Note that the bug has probably always been there in your PC firmware.
> It showed up now because Debian changed the default from "off" to "on".
>
> Bjørn

Thanks for the explanation, very helpful!

Nikolay

Re: Failed to detect SSD when installing Bullseye

[Nikolay Velyurov]

Hi Bjørn,

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 7:42 AM Bjørn Mork  wrote:

> try booting with intel_iommu=off on the kernel command line

It works now, thanks for your help. Is there a known bug or something?

Nikolay

Failed to detect SSD when installing Bullseye

[Nikolay Velyurov]

Hi all,

I tried to install Bullseye on my MacBookAir6,1 but the SSD is not detected:

ACPI: SSDT 0x8CD7E000 00010B (v01 APPLE  SataAhci 1000
INTL 20100915)
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ahci :04:00.0: version 3.0
ahci :04:00.0: AHCI 0001. 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
ahci :04:00.0: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led pio slum part
scsi host0: ahci
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m512@0xb070 port 0xb0700100 irq 54
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 3
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 3
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 3.0 Gbps
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320)
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 3
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80)
DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
DMAR: [DMA Write] Request device [04:00.1] PASID  fault addr
fffe [fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320)

Buster and earlier releases work just well:

ACPI: SSDT 0x8CD7E000 00010B (v01 APPLE  SataAhci 1000
INTL 20100915)
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ahci :04:00.0: version 3.0
ahci :04:00.0: AHCI 0001. 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
ahci :04:00.0: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led pio slum part
scsi host0: ahci
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m512@0xb070 port 0xb0700100 irq 49
ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
ata1.00: unexpected _GTF length (8)
ata1.00: ATA-8: APPLE SSD TS0128F, 109R0219, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 236978176 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32)
ata1.00: unexpected _GTF length (8)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA  APPLE SSD TS0128 0219 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 236978176 512-byte logical blocks: (121 GB/113 GiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

Can anyone help me please?

Regards,
Nikolay