On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:20 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I really doubt if libata alone would do much for me, as the disk and > > bios doesn't really want to know about ata at all. We're 1998 here, > > remember. ATA has to be disabled for this to read the disk at all. > > 1998 is well into the world of ATA (IDE is just a confusing othername) Yeah I read it as 'faster ide' but the board/disk won't do it. The disk seems up to it, but something else is dodgy. > > From your info there isn't enough to debug this. > > Boot the kernel with initcall_debug=1 > > and it will spew a list of each initializer as it calls it, you can then > see which is the last called and look it up in the symbol table That's the sort of thing a luser like me needs to know! /busies himself compiling a _working_ 2.6.22.6 kernel without gigabytes of network stuff clogging buffers and with symbols in . . . split & load by floppy, Reassemble. Much later: These initcalls all came in, ran for a 0-5 milliseconds, and returned zero unless otherwise stated. There are more, but they're at the beginning of the kernel, when it's setting itself up. I can copy the lot if needed. dma_bus_init pci_legacy_init (ran for 6 msec) Probing PCI hardware PCI quirk; region 8000-803f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI PCI quirk: region 2180-218f claimed by PIIX4 SMB PIIX4 devres B PIO at 0398-0399 PIIX4 devres C PIO at 0372-0373 PIIX4 devres E PIO at 0370-0371 PIIX4 devres G PIO at 0388-038f pcibios_irq_init PCI: Discovered primary peer bus ff [IRQ] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:01:0 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0a:0 pcibios_init .. procswaps_init init_tmpfs slab_sysfs fasync_init aio_setup inotify_setup inotify_user_setup init_mbcache dnotify_init init_devpts_fs init_ext3_fs journal_init init_ext2_fs init_ramfs_fs init_minix_fs init_fat_fs init_msdos_fs init_vfat_fs init_nls_cp437 init_nls_utf8 ipc_init ipc_sysctl_init crypto+algapi_init cryptomgr_init hmac_module_init init+0x0/0x10 noop_init as_init io scheduler <blah> deadline_init io scheduler <blah> deadline_init io scheduler <blah> cfq_init io scheduler <blah> bloct_trace_init audit_classes_init pci_init Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers pci_proc_init fb_console_init vesafb_init rand_initialize tty_init *** ran for 26 msec*** pty_init rtc_init RTC <blah> nvram_init serial8250_init serial9250_pci_init isa_bus_init floppy_init Floppy <blah> ***Ran for 15 msec***(asterisks mine) loop_init net_olddevs_init loopback_init videodev_init Linux video Capture <blah> rz1000_ide_init generic_ide_init ide_init Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision 7.00alpha2 ide assuming 33 Mhz ide_generic_init Hitatchi_DK226A-32 ATA disk drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 on irq 14 *** ide_generic_init took 1446 msec to run***(asterisks mine) idedisk_init hda: max request size:128KiB hda: 6332256 sectors (3242 MB) w/128 KiB Cache CHS=6282/16/63 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 *** Ran for 18 msec*** (asterisks mine) mon_init i8042_init PNP: No PS/2 controller found, probing ports directly serio i8042 KBD port at <blah> serio:i8042 AUX port at <blah> i8042_init serport_init mousedev_init mouse PS/2 mouse <blah> atkbd_init psmouse_init hid_init <USB blurb> hid_init flow_cache_init xfrm_user_init Initialising XFRM Netlink Socket af_unix_init NET: Registered protocol family 1 packet_init NET: Registered protocol family 17 ***powernow_init*** Returned -19 (asterisks mine) check_nmi_watchdog apic_bug_finalize print_ipi_mode Using IPI Shortcut mode random32_reseed pci_sysfs_init seqgen_init early_uart_console_switch tcp_congestion_default input: PS2++ Logitech Touchpad 3 as class/input/input0 input: AT keyboard as class/input/input1 kjournald Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed Looking right back to the beginning, it ran a thing it called the Locking API Testsuite The summary was "145 out of 218 testcases failed, as expected" - 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
