-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/08 00:53, Kai Martens wrote: > 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... > [snip] > 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 [snip] This is the best I could find from Google:
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