Hi there, While upgrading to service pack 3 windoze died - so I finally got my wife to work on my debian machine. Now I need to install debian on her amd64 compaq, and unlike 15 month ago this time I cannot give up. The SATA drives are simply not recognized during installation. Threw in an old 8.6G ide hard drive that I had salvaged, and installed the system. Below is my dmesg output: the trail of the errors is clear, but even after a lot of googling I still have no idea as to what the root cause might be. Could not make sense of anything I found on the web. The chip is an ATI IXP 400. The BIOS does not seem to allow me to mess with any drive settings...
:-( Thanks for your help! Best, Kai P.S. Due to the high traffic I am not on the list. Please cc me in your reply. - Will deal with the 8139too issue after I got the disk... /var/log/dmesg: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Linux version 2.6.24-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.24-7) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4 .1.3 20080114 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-19)) #1 SMP Sat May 10 09:28:10 UTC 200 8 Command line: root=UUID=586b3c5f-c254-452e-93dc-898e0ef3331e ro quiet BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003bef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003bef0000 - 000000003bef3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003bef3000 - 000000003bf00000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 245488) 1 entries of 3200 used end_pfn_map = 1048576 DMI present. dmi_string: out of memory. ACPI: RSDP 000F7C60, 3BEF3040 (r2 HP-CPC) Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 CPU has 1 num_cores No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000003bef0000 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 245488) 1 entries of 3200 used Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003bef0000 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 DMA32 4096 -> 1048576 Normal 1048576 -> 1048576 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 159 0: 256 -> 245488 On node 0 totalpages: 245391 DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 1067 pages reserved DMA zone: 2876 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 3300 pages used for memmap DMA32 zone: 238092 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254. Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 MPTABLE: OEM ID: OEM00000 MPTABLE: Product ID: PROD00000000 MPTABLE: APIC at: 0x FEE00000 Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) I/O APIC #2 at 0xFEC00000. Setting APIC routing to flat Processors: 1 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3bf00000:a4100000) SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 34400 bytes of per cpu data Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 240968 Policy zone: DMA32 Kernel command line: root=UUID=586b3c5f-c254-452e-93dc-898e0ef3331e ro quiet Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) TSC calibrated against PIT time.c: Detected 2188.838 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ c30c000000 size 32 MB Aperture too small (32 MB) No AGP bridge found Memory: 956956k/981952k available (2144k kernel code, 24608k reserved, 1006k data, 316k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4381.99 BogoMIPS (lpj=8763983) Security Framework initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 Initializing cgroup subsys ns Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 0/0 -> Node 0 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 25k freed ACPI: Core revision 20070126 ACPI Exception (tbxface-0629): AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES, While loading namespace from ACPI tables [20070126] ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC Using local APIC timer interrupts. APIC timer calibration result 12436605 Detected 12.436 MHz APIC timer. Brought up 1 CPUs net_namespace: 120 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:14.1[A] -> IRQ 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:00:14.5[B] -> IRQ 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:01:05.0[A] -> IRQ 17 PCI: using PPB 0000:00:14.4[D] to get irq 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:02:03.0[D] -> IRQ 17 PCI: using PPB 0000:00:14.4[B] to get irq 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:02:05.0[B] -> IRQ 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:02:08.0[A] -> IRQ 16 PCI: using PPB 0000:00:14.4[B] to get irq 17 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: 0000:02:09.0[B] -> IRQ 17 NET: Registered protocol family 8 NET: Registered protocol family 20 pnp: the driver 'system' has been registered PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: e000-efff MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff PREFETCH window: d8000000-dfffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4 IO window: d000-dfff MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff PREFETCH window: fdc00000-fdcfffff NET: Registered protocol family 2 Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 6771k freed audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1216094483.708:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) PCI: MSI quirk detected. MSI deactivated. Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Linux agpgart interface v0.102 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled pnp: the driver 'serial' has been registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 pnp: the driver 'i8042 kbd' has been registered pnp: the driver 'i8042 aux' has been registered pnp: the driver 'i8042 kbd' has been unregistered pnp: the driver 'i8042 aux' has been unregistered PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice cpuidle: using governor ladder cpuidle: using governor menu TCP bic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 registered taskstats version 1 Freeing unused kernel memory: 316k freed input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1 thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit SCSI subsystem initialized ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:13.0. Probably buggy MP table. ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:13.0 setup! ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: init 0000:00:13.0 fail, -19 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:13.1. Probably buggy MP table. ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:13.1 setup! ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: init 0000:00:13.1 fail, -19 libata version 3.00 loaded. PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:13.2. Probably buggy MP table. ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:13.2 setup! ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: init 0000:00:13.2 fail, -19 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx pnp: the driver 'ide' has been registered sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.3 scsi0 : sata_sil scsi1 : sata_sil ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio [EMAIL PROTECTED] tf 0xfe02f080 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio [EMAIL PROTECTED] tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 11 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15-NAPI (Feb 27, 2007) ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: HPA support seems broken, will skip HPA handling ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500320AS AD14 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 8139cp 0000:02:03.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp 0000:02:03.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda:<5>firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:02:05.0, OHCI version 1.0 tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1. eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at Port 0xdc00, 00:a0:cc:d5:b5:67, IRQ 16. ATIIXP: IDE controller (0x1002:0x4376 rev 0x00) at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1 ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf900-0xf907, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf908-0xf90f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 hda: ST38630A, ATA DISK drive hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hda: UDMA/33 mode selected ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdd: IDE-DVD DROM6216, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hdc: UDMA/66 mode selected hdd: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hdd: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33 hdd: UDMA/33 mode selected ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffc200004cc000, 00:13:d4:d6:5c:c1, IRQ 17 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101' hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 16809660 sectors (8606 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16676/16/63 hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: hard resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete Attempting manual resume swsusp: Marking nosave pages: 000000000009f000 - 0000000000100000 swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps created swsusp: Basic memory bitmaps freed kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2 piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input3 firewire_core: created new fw device fw0 (0 config rom retries, S400) ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: No additional sense information end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66:PIO4 ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Adding 409616k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:409616k ata1: soft resetting link ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata1: EH complete EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal loop: module loaded eth1: CSR0 00008000 cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3500320AS Rev: AD14 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 50 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 4516 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 11: 140 IO-APIC-edge sata_sil 12: 47186 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 22752 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 70188 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 44932 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1 17: 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, ATI IXP, eth0, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0000:01:05.0 NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 1070579 Local timer interrupts RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 0 function call interrupts TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kai Martens University of Utah Research Associate Professor Department of Physics Tel: (801) 585-5503 115 South 1400 East Fax: (801) 581-6256 James Fletcher Bldg. 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