Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > Hardware: > ASUS M2A-VM (with the latest BIOS - 0402) > AMD AM2 > Seagate IDE hard drive & LG IDE DVDRW > > All works rather very nicely expect for the SATA :-). > > No luck detecting the 2 Seagate ST3250620NS SATA-II > drives (Kernel.org's 2.6.21): > Linux version 2.6.21 (hari@fedora7) (gcc version 4.1.2 > 20070424 (Red Hat 4.1.2-1 > 1)) #3 SMP Mon Apr 30 18:49:04 EST 2007 > Command line: ro root=LABEL=/1234 rhgb quiet > ... > ahci 0000:00:12.0: version 2.1 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, > low) -> IRQ 22 > PM: Adding info for No Bus:timer > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw > xa/form2 cdda tray > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 > PM: Adding info for No Bus:seq > PM: Adding info for No Bus:sequencer > PM: Adding info for No Bus:sequencer2 > ahci 0000:00:12.0: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 > Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode > ahci 0000:00:12.0: flags: 64bit ncq ilck pm led clo > pmp pio slum part > ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000006a100 ctl > 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x00 > 00000000000000 irq 22 > ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000006a180 ctl > 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x00 > 00000000000000 irq 22 > ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000006a200 ctl > 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x00 > 00000000000000 irq 22 > ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000006a280 ctl > 0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x00 > 00000000000000 irq 22 > scsi2 : ahci > PM: Adding info for No Bus:host2 > ata3: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) > ata3: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs > ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, > err_mask=0x104) > ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, > err_mask=0x104) > ata3.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5 > ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, > err_mask=0x104) > ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > scsi3 : ahci > PM: Adding info for No Bus:host3 > ata4: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) > ata4: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs > ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, > err_mask=0x104) > ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, > err_mask=0x104) > ata4.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5 > ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > > (curiously irq 22 is exclusive to libata & irq count > is at 0) Can you post dmesg with kernel parameter 'pci=nomsi' set? -- tejun - 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