** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing

** Description changed:

  System info:
  
  Hardware:
  Mainboard MSI 965P Neo2, Intel 965 chipset, ICH8 southbridge, chipset 82801H, 
One SATA Samsung Harddisk 300GB, One SATA optical drive, both connected to the 
chipset's SATA channels 3 and 4 (behaviour is unchanged if connected to 
channels 1 and 2).
  SATA is running in IDE mode, AHCI mode is not supported by the hardware.
  
  Software:
- Affects kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic, Ubuntu 8.10
- Doesn't affect kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic, Ubuntu 8.04 or ubuntu 8.10, 
or earlier versions
+ Affects all kernel versions from version 2.6.26 to 2.6.28-13-generic and 
(untested) maybe later versions also
+ Doesn't affect kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic, Ubuntu 8.04 or ubuntu 8.10, 
vanilla 2.6.25, or earlier versions
  
  Symptoms:
  Booting ubuntu 8.10 with the included kernel 2.6.27-7-generic from either the 
live CD or as a system on disk upgraded via apt-get dist-upgrade stops at the 
point where the root partition is to be mounted. The BusyBox initramfs shell 
prompt appears after a timeout period, and when listing the "/dev" directory I 
can see that it doesn't contain any disk related device nodes, even the 
"dev/disk" directory is missing.
  The output of dmesg is showing that all four SATA channels are correctly 
recognised and initialised, but they all show a message
  "SATA link down", just as if no disk was connected to them. There are no 
further SATA/ATA related error messages in the dmesg output.
  
  Reproducibility:
  Booting the same system with a still-installed 2.6.24-19 from Ubuntu 8.04 
works without any problems. The dmesg output is mostly the same as with 2.6.27, 
the only notable difference is that instead of the message "ata3: SATA link 
down" and "ata4: SATA link down" it now show the correct initialisation 
messages for my drives in the same place in the dmesg output.
  
  Manually trying to load the sd_mod module from the initramfs prompt didn't 
bring the missing device nodes into existence either.
  Connecting a USB flash memory storage device and mounting it in the BusyBox 
initramfs shell works, however (in which case the necessary USB-disk-related 
device node is created automatically under /dev), and this way I was able to 
capture the dmesg output and attach it below.
  
  The attached files are:
  1: The  output of lspci to further specify my hardware configuration
  2: The output of dmesg from the initramfs shell of kernel 2.6.27
  3: As a comparison the output of dmesg from the working kernel 2.6.24 setup

** Description changed:

  System info:
  
  Hardware:
  Mainboard MSI 965P Neo2, Intel 965 chipset, ICH8 southbridge, chipset 82801H, 
One SATA Samsung Harddisk 300GB, One SATA optical drive, both connected to the 
chipset's SATA channels 3 and 4 (behaviour is unchanged if connected to 
channels 1 and 2).
  SATA is running in IDE mode, AHCI mode is not supported by the hardware.
  
  Software:
  Affects all kernel versions from version 2.6.26 to 2.6.28-13-generic and 
(untested) maybe later versions also
  Doesn't affect kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic, Ubuntu 8.04 or ubuntu 8.10, 
vanilla 2.6.25, or earlier versions
  
  Symptoms:
  Booting ubuntu 8.10 with the included kernel 2.6.27-7-generic from either the 
live CD or as a system on disk upgraded via apt-get dist-upgrade stops at the 
point where the root partition is to be mounted. The BusyBox initramfs shell 
prompt appears after a timeout period, and when listing the "/dev" directory I 
can see that it doesn't contain any disk related device nodes, even the 
"dev/disk" directory is missing.
  The output of dmesg is showing that all four SATA channels are correctly 
recognised and initialised, but they all show a message
  "SATA link down", just as if no disk was connected to them. There are no 
further SATA/ATA related error messages in the dmesg output.
  
  Reproducibility:
  Booting the same system with a still-installed 2.6.24-19 from Ubuntu 8.04 
works without any problems. The dmesg output is mostly the same as with 2.6.27, 
the only notable difference is that instead of the message "ata3: SATA link 
down" and "ata4: SATA link down" it now show the correct initialisation 
messages for my drives in the same place in the dmesg output.
  
+ Reproducibility UPDATE:
+ Issue persists for Ubuntu 9.04 with kernel 2.6.28-13-generic, either 
precompiled version or locally compiled.
+ 
  Manually trying to load the sd_mod module from the initramfs prompt didn't 
bring the missing device nodes into existence either.
  Connecting a USB flash memory storage device and mounting it in the BusyBox 
initramfs shell works, however (in which case the necessary USB-disk-related 
device node is created automatically under /dev), and this way I was able to 
capture the dmesg output and attach it below.
  
  The attached files are:
  1: The  output of lspci to further specify my hardware configuration
  2: The output of dmesg from the initramfs shell of kernel 2.6.27
  3: As a comparison the output of dmesg from the working kernel 2.6.24 setup

** Tags added: 2.6.28 2.6.28-13-generic 9.04

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2.6.27 SATA drives not accessible at boot time, 2.6.24 working
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294123
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