On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:47:11AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:19:33AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >>Sven Luther wrote: > >>>Ok. can i use this tree with a 2.6.16 base ? > >>Not as-is. Here (attached) is a patch for 2.6.16.17+ that updates > >>the sata_mv driver to the latest source. Completely untested, > >>but it does compile. > >> > >>I will hopefully test it later today, but in the meanwhile, have a go at > >>it. > > > >And here is attached my dmesg output. The last bit of mv_host_intr was > >when i > >tried to access the partition table of the disk with parted. > > I don't see anything particularly bad in that dmesg output, > apart from all of the debug output --> did you enable that, > or was it "on" by default? Ah, yes, i enabled it on Jeff's suggestion. > It finds one SATA drive, with no *known* partition table format. Well, it is a blank disk indeed, so this is no suprise. > Can you access the disk? Eg. hexdump -C /dev/sda Trying to partition the disk with parted yielded the last set of debug messages, and a : Error: Unable to open /dev/sda - unrecognized disk label. The same when trying to write a partition table to it, and naturally, there is no partition afterward. hexdump yielded only the debugmessages and nothing else. > Meanwhile, I just booted 2.6.17-rc5-git1 (latest kernel.org) on my Mac G3 > box here, and sata_mv seems to be behaving for me (thus far). Mmm, this is a G3, while i have a G4. The G4 does some I/O reordering, which we don't have with a G3, so this may be the cause. Do you have a mac version of the board, with a forth/OF bios in it ? Or a normal PC card, which is thus uninitialized ? Friendly, Sven Luther - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
