Showstopper ATA bug in 6.1-PRE?

Søren Schmidt sos at deepcore.dk
Wed Feb 8 13:02:15 PST 2006


Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Hi Soren,
> 
> I just went to 6.1-PRE on my main machine, coming from 6.0-STABLE
> of roughly end of december.
> 
> And I hit some stuff that really worries me:
> 
> - the freshly built kernel keels over with (hand transcribed):
> 
> ata3: reiniting channel SATA connect ... 
> SATA connected
> sata_connect_devices 0x1 <ATA_MASTER>
> 
> ad6: req=0xC35ba0c8 SETFEATURES SETTRANSFERMODE semaphore timeout 
> !! DANGER Will RObinson !!
> 
> (... is where I cannot read my own handwriting, it scrolled quite fast on
> the screen..)
> 
> Boot device is a SATA RAID1 on a Promise 2300.

Hmm, that should not happen. Could you try to backstep just ATA to 
before the MFC, that is 24/1/06 and let me know if that helps please ?

> Another snag is that my ad10 disk on 6.0-STABLE suddenly became ad12 on
> 6.1-PRE

Hmm that is because there is only 2 ports on your promise which is now 
correctly identified, before it was errounsly found as 3 ports.

-Søren


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