Andrew Paprocki wrote: > Ethan, I believe my 2.6.22-rc2 kernel *is* working with respect to the > libata problem. By removing CONFIG_IDE, the system now works fine. The > reason why I thought that libata was still having a problem was > because the system would hang after agpgart printed: > "agpgart: detected an Intel 965G chipset." > > I *thought* the system was once again waiting for the root drive to > become available, but it turns out it was actually hung. I found > another user with a Gigabyte board with the same issue. I also have > 4GB ram.. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-amd64/2007-04/msg00001.html > > I added "mem=4096M" to the boot line and now everything is working > properly. The IDE subsystem is off and libata is handling everything. > I'll post on the kernel mailing list to see if this is a known issue > w/ agpgart or amd64+4gb. > > I do see some trace print out complaining about reads past the end of > the device.. Does anyone have an idea if these are harmful? They are > coming from my ICH8 RAID volumes: > > sda: sda1 > sda: p1 exceeds device capacity > sdb: unknown partition table > sdc: sdc1 > sdc: p1 exceeds device capacity > sdf1 > sdf: p1 exceeds device capacity > ... > attempt to access beyond end of device > sda: rw=0, want=1953533832, limit=976773168 > Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 244191472 > (repeats about 25 times) > attempt to access beyond end of device > sdf: rw=0, want=1875410824, limit=625142448 > (repeats about 25 times) > sdc: rw=0, want=1875410824, limit=625142448 > attempt to access beyond end of device > (repeats about 25 times) What does 'fdisk -l' say? -- 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
