Andreas Mohr writes: > Hello all, > > My Inspiron 8000 ICH2 (i810) P3/700 UP has a hard time booting 2.6.29 things: > > [loaded init, shell stuff] > ... > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 > ata1: EH complete > ... > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > [LAST LINE, FULL STOP] > ---> hangs with IDE LED solidly on! <--- > > NOTE: kernel did NOT hang when accidentally running rc2-git1 w/o any modules loaded! > (IOW, probably a module-related hang) > disabling sr_mod.ko will make a boot proceed a tiny bit, then hang anyway > > Could be mutex deadlock (CPU hot, 100%?) > no log errors whatsoever > latest known working: .28-rc6 (admittedly somewhat old; DOES work currently) > earliest known buggy: -rc2-git1, -rc4 also, -rc5 also > no SysRq available (notebook keys: no workey, /proc/sysrq obviously > not available either) > > Should I test 2.6.28.5? Every build will take two hours though... > Not ATA-SFF 32bit bug problem, right? (already committed?) > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123254501314058&w=2 To me it looks like the 32-bit PIO bug. The patch you cited above was just the first to identify the issue. This is still unfixed in 29-rc5. Please test Sergei's latest proposed patch posted yesterday to linux-ide. -- 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
