Craig Block wrote: > --- Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Craig Block wrote: >>> I'm having a problem getting Linux to handle the SATA drives and >>> controllers on a new computer with an ASUS M2N-X motherboard. This is a >>> socket AM2 board and has an nVidia nForce 520 chipset. >> Does 'noapic' kernel parameter help? > > Unfortunately, no. I also tried noapic with nolapic, nomsi, and pci=nobios. > > I believe it boils down to the following line I'm seeing in the dmesg output; > > ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Which is most likely caused by IRQ misrouting as indicated by the APIC error. I suggest you to post a new message to LKML with title "IRQ delivery problem on nForce520" and cc linux-ide. That should attract the attention of the right people. Thanks. -- 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
