Hi and thanks for the reponse. There are 6 SATA slots on the board, 4 of which are being used (ports 0 & 2 are not being used because they're hard to reach). AHCI is disabled, but enabling makes no visible difference. Here is lspci: @@@@ 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] (rev a2) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 03:01.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 03:02.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 03:03.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 03:04.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 03:05.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 03:06.0 PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. PES16T7 PCI Express Switch (rev 0d) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 0a:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) 0a:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) 0b:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) @@@@ On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:01 PM, James Bottomley<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:31 +0200, Marc Bowes wrote: >> I'm not sure if you can attach files, but here goes (attached as dmesg.txt) > > Actually, this shows the problems are on two unoccupied ahci ports: > > >> [ 0.685269] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: version 3.0 >> [ 0.685279] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 >> [ 0.696040] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 3 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode >> [ 0.696283] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pmp pio slum part >> [ 0.696453] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 >> [ 0.696592] scsi0 : ahci >> [ 0.696907] scsi1 : ahci >> [ 0.697224] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xec400000 port 0xec400100 irq 16 >> [ 0.697461] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xec400000 port 0xec400180 irq 16 >> [ 6.969039] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) >> [ 10.743038] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) >> [ 10.743191] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) >> [ 10.743344] ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying >> [ 17.015051] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) >> [ 20.789041] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) > ... > > Could you confirm that there are actually no devices it's supposed to be > detecting? > > It looks like the AHCI controller at 00:0a:00.0 might be some form of > piix controller in the ICH10 bridge ... does lspci confirm this? I > remember you said you had: > >> The ATA controllers: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port >> SATA IDE Controller. > > Yet the log is finding six ports: four on the piix and two on the > problem ahci .. is that right? > > James > > > -- 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
