[SATA] sata-via : bug?

2005-03-21 Thread Jay Roplekar
I have a brand new Western Digital sata drive, VIA KT600 based ECS motherboard on which I am trying to install various distros (with installers based on 2.4.26, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.11 etc) all of them fail to detect the HD (and bomb out) because sata-via is ignoring it . I have only one

[SATA] sata-via : bug?

2005-03-21 Thread Jay Roplekar
I have a brand new Western Digital sata drive, VIA KT600 based ECS motherboard on which I am trying to install various distros (with installers based on 2.4.26, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.11 etc) all of them fail to detect the HD (and bomb out) because sata-via is ignoring it . I have only one

SATA VIA8237 Problems (Install)

2005-03-19 Thread Jay Roplekar
I have a KT600 based motherboard & I am planning to set up my new system using that. It has onboard via 8237 sata {raid, cough cough} controller. I am planning to use a single sata disk (I am not interested in raid). The various distro installers are having tough time noticing a brand new

SATA VIA8237 Problems (Install)

2005-03-19 Thread Jay Roplekar
I have a KT600 based motherboard I am planning to set up my new system using that. It has onboard via 8237 sata {raid, cough cough} controller. I am planning to use a single sata disk (I am not interested in raid). The various distro installers are having tough time noticing a brand new

Bad page state at prep_new_page

2005-02-26 Thread Jay Roplekar
I have been getting this error off and on with vendor kernel 2.6.8, I have posted about it on lkml 3/4 times before. Actually I had offered to provide a summary of similar reports from the web with no takers, I can still provide that to somebody if it is useful. I had run memtest overnight

Bad page state at prep_new_page

2005-02-26 Thread Jay Roplekar
I have been getting this error off and on with vendor kernel 2.6.8, I have posted about it on lkml 3/4 times before. Actually I had offered to provide a summary of similar reports from the web with no takers, I can still provide that to somebody if it is useful. I had run memtest overnight

Executive Summary: Bad page state at prep_new_page

2005-02-06 Thread Jay Roplekar
This might or might not be useful to anybody but I googled with the above error and tried to track down how many of these errors had actually been resolved. [It is possible that people don't come back to summarize once the problem is resolved]. I only tracked once that did not get reported on

Executive Summary: Bad page state at prep_new_page

2005-02-06 Thread Jay Roplekar
This might or might not be useful to anybody but I googled with the above error and tried to track down how many of these errors had actually been resolved. [It is possible that people don't come back to summarize once the problem is resolved]. I only tracked once that did not get reported on

Re: Kernel bug: mm/rmap.c:483 and related {now 2.6.8}

2005-01-31 Thread Jay Roplekar
>Thanks for giving that a thorough run, memory seems exonerated... yet I >don't trust this machine at all: have you tried manufacturer diagnostics? Ouch, that hurts. This is a machine I built myself over three years ago. Ran very stably with 2.4.*. may be it is the age of the machine. The

Re: Kernel bug: mm/rmap.c:483 and related {now 2.6.8}

2005-01-31 Thread Jay Roplekar
Thanks for giving that a thorough run, memory seems exonerated... yet I don't trust this machine at all: have you tried manufacturer diagnostics? Ouch, that hurts. This is a machine I built myself over three years ago. Ran very stably with 2.4.*. may be it is the age of the machine. The

Re: Kernel bug: mm/rmap.c:483

2005-01-23 Thread Jay Roplekar
I am not sure this is a fixed problem in 2.6.11-rc2 based on my read of the changelog, hence this email. Here is the summary: 1. I started with vanilla 2.6.10 where I replaced ieee1394 drivers from trunk rev 1251 patched in. My kernel is tainted due to ndiswrapper that loads windows drivers

Re: Kernel bug: mm/rmap.c:483

2005-01-23 Thread Jay Roplekar
I am not sure this is a fixed problem in 2.6.11-rc2 based on my read of the changelog, hence this email. Here is the summary: 1. I started with vanilla 2.6.10 where I replaced ieee1394 drivers from trunk rev 1251 patched in. My kernel is tainted due to ndiswrapper that loads windows drivers