Dear people, I have a barebone Asus Vintage2-AE1 [1]. This box has a mobo Asus A8V-MQ. The board has: - the Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64. - North Bridge: VIA K8M800 - South Bridge: VIA VT8251 - VIA Graphics Integrated - IDE 2 x UltraDMA 133 - 4 x Serial ATA ... I'm using the bios version 0206. The 0210 doesn't show me the vga card, so I don't have graphics mode. I think that is a buggy bios. The bios is configured with vt8251 in AHCI mode and bios boot up activated, so the hd is recognized in the beginning. I don't have any raid, only one hd. The hd is a Maxtor 6V250F0. I'm using a debian etch but the i386 version. The only way that I can use the hd is using a 2.6.16 standard kernel with the modifications explained in this page [2]. Basically you have to use their ahci.c and sata_via.c. The modifications are small from the original code from Mr Jeff Garzik. I have tried to use the 2.6.18 and 2.6.20rc6 and the result is the same. The kernel boots, but when arrives at the ata3, scsi2 : ahci ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x104) .... repeated some times ... scsi3 : ahci ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) scsi4 : ahci ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) scsi5 : ahci ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Done. Begin: Mounting root file system... ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free. ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe. ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free. ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe. Done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... ..... but the /dev/sda doesn't exist so I cannot boot. using the 2.6.16 with lspci -M I obtain the info attached below. Please, could you look on it? Best regards, thanks in advance, Leo [1] http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=1&l2=1&l3=381&model=1001&modelmenu=1 [2] http://www.geocities.com/rajahuroman/main.html lspci -M output: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] ## 00.01:0 is a bridge from 00 to 01-01 00:0f.0 SATA controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 90) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 90) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 70) 00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c) 00:13.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Host Bridge ## 00.13:0 is a bridge from 00 to 02-04 00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCI to PCI Bridge ## 00.13:1 is a bridge from 00 to 05-05 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCIE Root Port ## 02.00:0 is a bridge from 02 to 03-03 02:00.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 PCIE Root Port ## 02.00:1 is a bridge from 02 to 04-04 Summary of buses: 00: Primary host bus 13.1 Bridge to 05-05 13.0 Bridge to 02-04 01.0 Bridge to 01-01 01: Entered via 00:01.0 02: Entered via 00:13.0 00.1 Bridge to 04-04 00.0 Bridge to 03-03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Linux User 152692 Catalonia - 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
