Re: trouble (very slow reads -- disk or controller resets?) with Marvell 88SE92xx PCIe card

> this makes me think that grub is causing the SATA controller to reset > itself with every disk read or something, and then grub is waiting for > it to come back to life before carrying on. On i386-pc GRUB uses BIOS calls to access disks. I'd suggest updating Option ROM and/or BIOS. I take no res

Re: trouble (very slow reads -- disk or controller resets?) with Marvell 88SE92xx PCIe card

Dear Daniel, Am Donnerstag, den 03.10.2013, 23:48 -0400 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: […] > Is this something i can debug better somehow? you could use a serial console for debugging and increase the debugging level. Additionally you should GRUB built from the Bazaar repository to find out if

trouble (very slow reads -- disk or controller resets?) with Marvell 88SE92xx PCIe card

hi there-- i'm trying to boot a machine with grub-pc 2.00-19 (from debian sid), off of two SATA disks connected to a PCIe controller. The PCIe controller is a "​SYBA SI-PEX40064", and upon boot it announces itself as: Marvell 88SE92xx Adapter - BIOS Version 1.0.0.1010 PCIe x1 2.5Gbps Mode: PassT