Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.18+6 Severity: important I have a VIA motherboard with a JMicron SATA controller. A quirk settings in the kernel enables both the IDE and SATA interface to the controller. As a result, my hard disk appears both as /dev/sda and /dev/hdg. I access the hard disk using /dev/sda with linux 2.6.18-3, but the dmesg gets filled with errors about failed accesses to /dev/hdg, e.g.
end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 625142272 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 8 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 16 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 24 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 32 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 40 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 48 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 56 end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 0 even though it's not being accessed directly (maybe HAL?). With Linux 2.6.18-4, the ide driver seems to be more aggressive, and it manages to grab the interface from the sata subsystem, causing the hard disk to be inaccessible via /dev/sda, and only working via /dev/hdg. Since the system is set up to use /dev/sda (right from the root= command line, but also fstab etc), this causes all sort of problems. I cannot disable the ide modules completely because I have an IDE burner attached to the main IDE interface (hda), so I've tried to disable access to the ide2 and ide3 interfaces with boot parameters: this was completely unsuccessful because all ide2=noprobe, hdg=noprobe, hdg=none or ide.<same combinations> are totally ignored, the ide2 interface is brought up and the hdg device appears. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-686 depends on: ii linux-image-2.6.18-4-68 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron linux-image-2.6-686 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- lspci -n : 00:00.0 0600: 1106:0351 00:00.1 0600: 1106:1351 00:00.2 0600: 1106:2351 00:00.3 0600: 1106:3351 00:00.4 0600: 1106:4351 00:00.5 0800: 1106:5351 00:00.7 0600: 1106:7351 00:01.0 0604: 1106:b999 00:02.0 0604: 1106:a238 00:03.0 0604: 1106:c238 00:03.1 0604: 1106:d238 00:03.2 0604: 1106:e238 00:03.3 0604: 1106:f238 00:0a.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 46) 00:0f.0 0101: 1106:0591 (rev 80) 00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 07) 00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0) 00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0) 00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0) 00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0) 00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86) 00:11.0 0601: 1106:3337 00:11.7 0600: 1106:287e 00:13.0 0600: 1106:337b 00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100 00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101 00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102 00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103 02:00.0 0106: 197b:2363 (rev 02) 02:00.1 0101: 197b:2363 (rev 02) 03:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 01) 06:00.0 0300: 10de:0141 (rev a2) 80:01.0 0403: 1106:3288 (rev 10) -- see also: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/6/76 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
