Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759990AbXJaQG5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757007AbXJaQGu (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:50 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:56251 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756115AbXJaQGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4728A816.8020608@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:46 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Morrison, Tom" CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala Subject: Re: Other Problems with Marvell Driver - 7042 (2.6.23)... References: <45ED682A.9040408@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 32 Morrison, Tom wrote: > I am running the 'latest' kernel retrieved from Kumar Gala's > Powerpc git tree (mainly because I am running on a MPC8548 board) > and it appears to be in the full 2.6.23 version while the sata_mv > driver version seems to be 1.01. > > I have searched the archives, and there has been some discussion > of a regression in the Marvell driver, but I seem to have a > different symptom from Olaf's (I am not running a 64bit kernel - > and I am *not* running with large (36bit) physical and resources - > so I wouldn't have the same type of IOMMU issues) > > Below in the error output (using ATA_DEBUG) the driver sees the > two drives (3 partitions on /dev/sda & 2 partitions on /dev/sdb) > and apparently sets up everything correctly for standard access... > > But, when I try to mount a partition - it freezes up and gets I/O > errors? > Can someone give me any hints of things to try? First you need to try 2.6.23.1 rather than 2.6.23, because it contains a critical sata_mv fix. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/