Add Show in this mail loop. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Nieder [mailto:jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:45 AM To: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: 'Tejun Heo'; 'Orson'; Aries Lee Subject: Re: JMicron Technology JMB362 JMB363 SError: { DevExch } ExpressCard, sometimes fails to boot (Aries: sorry for the duplicate message) Hi, Aries Lee wrote: > Is it possible to install windows OS on the same hardware, > If it still get the same error, that we can conclude it as a hardware issue. Orson wrote: > I installed WinXP SP3 as a dual boot option onto my HP NX6325. > I booted into windows and my dual port express card was found immediately, I > installed the latest driver from J Micron and everything seemed to be OK. > I looked through the winxp system messages and all was OK, I looked through > device manager and it said everything was OK, all resources were OK. > I attached an external esata drive and it was detected instantly and was > available in my list of drives, I copied some files over, all went OK, I ran > scandisk to check the drive and all went OK, the drive did not seem to > re-attach itself or give any errors. So it seems to work fine in windows. All right; looks like the hardware works. > I then shut down my laptop and removed the esata drive and booted into Debian > wheezy, same error appeared during boot (without any drive attached) > irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed > ata1: SError: { PHYInt CommWake DevExch } > ata1: hard resetting link > ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-32) > ata1: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 8 secs > ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps > ata1: hard resetting link > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) > ata1: EH complete > > etc, etc. Right. > I booted back to windows and all was OK, but, here is what I have found, if I > boot into Linux from windows without shutting down (warm boot) then the > express card is initialised in Debian without problems and works as normal, if > I shut down and cold boot straight to Debian, the error appears again. Interesting. So it sounds like Windows is doing some initialization that Linux does not. > Perhaps the card is faulty or (I suspect) there is a problem with the bios on > the NX6325, the latest bios is dated 2007 and HP seem to have stopped > supporting this model, even though mine was purchased new in 2007. Please send "acpidump" output as an attachment for reference. > Anyway, because the express card is so cheap I have just ordered a replacement > of the same type, so this will tell me if it's the card that is at fault. Ok. Thanks for your work. linux-ide folks: any ideas for debugging this further? For example, is there a way to find the difference between the state after a cold boot and a warm boot from windows? Ciao, Jonathan -- 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
