Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
John Stoffel wrote: What happens when you just have ONE disk connected to the motherboard controller, and the rest connected to PCI controllers? Does it crap out then? You've just such a nice repeatable problem across motherboards that it's a shame to waste this debugging time. Sorry, I gave

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread John Stoffel
> "Jon" == Jon Ivar Rykkelid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> Prakash Punnoor wrote: >> I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any >> problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, >> try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My sys

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Prakash Punnoor
On the day of Saturday 15 September 2007 Jon Ivar Rykkelid hast written: > Do you get the same error messages that I do if you're running without > the "acpi_use_timer_override" (this is how it is spelled, isn't it) ? I don't remeber which messages I get, but for me the kernel didn't boot with ce

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My system won't work with skipping the override. Hi , I reconnected and reb

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread Prakash Punnoor
On the day of Friday 14 September 2007 Jon Ivar Rykkelid hast written: > Hi, I'm getting inmore confident that the driver is the issue. > > > (Or have anyone EVER been successful with the latest kernel/driver on > this HW)? I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have an

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I'm getting inmore confident that the driver is the issue. I have now been able to reproduce the same error on the new motherboard as well... - (the same MB was tested to work in Windows with windows-drivers)... Unless you guys can come up with something clever, I'll see if I can get my

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread auxsvr
Hello, I get a similar, if not identical, problem with an ASUS A8N SLI nforce4 based motherboard. The PC (with a seagate SATA-2 120 GB HDD) ran fine for two years , last Christmas windows xp (I didn't change either hardware or drivers) started crashing and the filesystem got corrupted beyond re

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: I'm going to test another (identical) motherboard this evening to establish whether it could be a HW-issue. Not just motherboard. It is more likely to be a cable, drive or PSU problem. It is NOT the PSU, nor is it cables, as all the drives work

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: It is NOT the PSU, nor is it cables, as all the drives work well using the same cables + PSU (in the same box) if I connect them to my other two controllers (in that same box). It's sometimes the combination that matters most. You cannot really make that determinati

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: >> Prakash Punnoor wrote: >>> I don't think it will matter, as adma doesn't affect MCP51, but only >>> nforce4. So I'd look for other trouble makers. >>> >> Robert told me. (And you're correct - It didn't help). > > Yes, it was already in slow-and-s

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't think it will matter, as adma doesn't affect MCP51, but only nforce4. So I'd look for other trouble makers. Robert told me. (And you're correct - It didn't help). Yes, it was already in slow-and-safe mode. I'm going to test another

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't think it will matter, as adma doesn't affect MCP51, but only nforce4. So I'd look for other trouble makers. Robert told me. (And you're correct - It didn't help). I'm going to test another (identical) motherboard this evening to establish whether it could be a

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Prakash Punnoor
On the day of Thursday 13 September 2007 Jon Ivar Rykkelid hast written: > Resending, as my first attempts contained HTML and was blocked... > > Tejun Heo wrote: > > Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion, but sata_nv is not built modular in my > >> current kernel, so "no can do" a

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, To eliminate the possibility of this being a hardware issue, I have now acquired another "Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4" motherboard (with the "MCP51" chipset) for testing. I'll swap parts this evening. Hopefully I'll be able to tell you in a few hours whether this appears to be working as it s

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but I saw the error, and it was the same a

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Is this the general opinion? - Should I try to get a replacement motherboard of the same type? If so, can anyone confirm that the sata_nv-driver is working with the Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 motherboard at all / have anyone been successful with this MB? How about the MCP51 SATA controller? - Can

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but I saw the error, and it was the same as before, except tha

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I now tested with the adma=0 option, but if anything I got a crash quicker than before. Same error message started coming in, but this time the system hung before I was able to capture the log as well (but I saw the error, and it was the same as before, except that this time it was the at

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Resending, as my first attempts contained HTML and was blocked... Tejun Heo wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but sata_nv is not built modular in my current kernel, so "no can do" at the moment (However, if some expert REALLY thinks this will fix things, I will CERTA

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, but sata_nv is not built modular in my > current kernel, so "no can do" at the moment > (However, if some expert REALLY thinks this will fix things, I will > CERTAINLY recompile and give it a go) Passing "sata_nv.adma=0" as kernel boot paramete

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad)

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad) excerpt from "lspci"

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Jon Ivar Rykkelid wrote: > I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller > for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia > chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad) > > excerpt from "lspci": > 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1) > 0

sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I was told to forward my error report to this address. I am keen to test again if someone has a good suggestion / updated driver etc... (Give me a couple of days in that case...) - Hi, I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboar

sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Ivar Rykkelid
Hi, I'm resending (didn't see my first attempt appear on the maillist): I'm having serious disk-issues when using the on-board nvidia controller for my HDDs (My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4 with nvidia chipset, cpu is intel Core2Quad) excerpt from "lspci": 00:0d.0 IDE interface: n