Unfortunately I only have ssh access to the box for the next two weeks, but after I return I will send the netconsole logs. Thanks for looking into this. Kovid. On Tuesday 19 December 2006 18:13, you wrote: > Kovid Goyal wrote: > > Yes going back to 2.6.17 does fix it. Also windows and various LiveCDs > > boot without problems. > > > > Here is the output > > smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda > > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > > Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Thanks, I couldn't find anything indicating hardware problem from the > smartctl output. Ergh... The 0xff timing out is fixed in the devel > tree. The problem is why sda sometimes doesn't get detected. Can you > post the result of failing dmesg? If you've got a second computer, > doing netconsole (Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt) is the best > way. If not, just take a picture of the screen while ata1 detection is > in progress. -- _____________________________________ Kovid Goyal MC 452-48 California Institute of Technology 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 home : +01 626 390 8699 office: +01 626 395 6595 (449 Lauritsen) email : kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx web : http://www.kovidgoyal.net _____________________________________ - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
