Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
John Stoffel wrote: What happens when you just have ONE disk connected to the motherboard controller, and the rest connected to PCI controllers? Does it crap out then? You've just such a nice repeatable problem across motherboards that it's a shame to waste this debugging time. Sorry, I

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My system won't work with skipping the override. Hi , I reconnected and

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My system won't work with skipping the override. Hi , I reconnected and

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
John Stoffel wrote: What happens when you just have ONE disk connected to the motherboard controller, and the rest connected to PCI controllers? Does it crap out then? You've just such a nice repeatable problem across motherboards that it's a shame to waste this debugging time. Sorry, I

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
hands on / change to another (non-nvidia) chipset in a day or two, as the sata_nv with this chipset apparently isn't working. (Or have anyone EVER been successful with the latest kernel/driver on this HW)? Attaching everything relevant from /var/log/messages... Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I'm

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I'm going to test another (identical) motherboard this evening to establish whether it could be a HW-issue. Not just motherboard. It is more likely to be a cable, drive or PSU problem. It is NOT the PSU, nor is it cables, as all the drives work

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't think it will matter, as adma doesn't affect MCP51, but only nforce4. So I'd look for other trouble makers. Robert told me. (And you're correct - It didn't help). I'm going to test another (identical) motherboard this evening to establish whether it could be

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but I saw the error, and it was the sa

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but I saw the error, and it was the same as before, except

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't think it will matter, as adma doesn't affect MCP51, but only nforce4. So I'd look for other trouble makers. Robert told me. (And you're correct - It didn't help). I'm going to test another (identical) motherboard this evening to establish whether it could be

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I'm going to test another (identical) motherboard this evening to establish whether it could be a HW-issue. Not just motherboard. It is more likely to be a cable, drive or PSU problem. It is NOT the PSU, nor is it cables, as all the drives work

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
hands on / change to another (non-nvidia) chipset in a day or two, as the sata_nv with this chipset apparently isn't working. (Or have anyone EVER been successful with the latest kernel/driver on this HW)? Attaching everything relevant from /var/log/messages... Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I'm

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
? - Can anyone confirm that the driver is working for this HW? I would feel awkward to try to claim a warranty replacement if it is proved that the HW is OK after all, and the problem is with the linux-driver... BR Jon Ivar Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I now tested

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
it was the ata3-channel that first started acting up..) - To remind you all what this is about, I have reattached the log that I originally captured... Any help / clever suggestions is appreciated. Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I fixed /etc/modprobe.conf to include the following two lines: "

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Resending, as my first attempts contained HTML and was blocked... Tejun Heo wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but sata_nv is not built modular in my current kernel, so "no can do" at the moment (However, if some expert REALLY thinks this will fix

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad

sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I was told to forward my error report to this address. I am keen to test again if someone has a good suggestion / updated driver etc... (Give me a couple of days in that case...) - Hi, I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My

sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad) excerpt from "lspci": 00:0d.0 IDE interface:

sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad) excerpt from lspci: 00:0d.0 IDE interface:

sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I was told to forward my error report to this address. I am keen to test again if someone has a good suggestion / updated driver etc... (Give me a couple of days in that case...) - Hi, I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Resending, as my first attempts contained HTML and was blocked... Tejun Heo wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but sata_nv is not built modular in my current kernel, so no can do at the moment (However, if some expert REALLY thinks this will fix things, I

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
it was the ata3-channel that first started acting up..) - To remind you all what this is about, I have reattached the log that I originally captured... Any help / clever suggestions is appreciated. Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I fixed /etc/modprobe.conf to include the following two lines: alias

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
? - Can anyone confirm that the driver is working for this HW? I would feel awkward to try to claim a warranty replacement if it is proved that the HW is OK after all, and the problem is with the linux-driver... BR Jon Ivar Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I now tested