> Please describe the I/O setup. Serial ATA? Which driver, what type of > hardware? Yes SATA. I have also ATA CD/DVD-Reader, but it wasn't touched. Driver is ata_piix. HDD is Seagate Barracude ST3120026AS, 120GB. I use LVM. [root@bifur root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2399.058 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cidxtpr bogomips : 4751.36 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2399.058 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cidxtpr bogomips : 4784.12 [root@bifur root]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120026AS Rev: 3.20 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 [root@bifur /]# cat /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-0043 : timer0 0050-0053 : timer1 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-0077 : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0290-0297 : pnp 00:08 02f8-02ff : serial 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial 0400-041f : 0000:00:1f.3 0480-04bf : 0000:00:1f.0 0680-06ff : pnp 00:08 0800-087f : 0000:00:1f.0 0800-0803 : PM1a_EVT_BLK 0804-0805 : PM1a_CNT_BLK 0808-080b : PM_TMR 0828-082f : GPE0_BLK 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 d800-d8ff : 0000:02:05.0 d800-d8ff : SysKonnect SK-98xx e800-e8ff : 0000:00:1f.5 ee80-eebf : 0000:00:1f.5 ef00-ef1f : 0000:00:1d.0 ef00-ef1f : uhci_hcd ef20-ef3f : 0000:00:1d.1 ef20-ef3f : uhci_hcd ef40-ef5f : 0000:00:1d.2 ef40-ef5f : uhci_hcd ef60-ef6f : 0000:00:1f.2 ef60-ef6f : libata ef80-ef9f : 0000:00:1d.3 ef80-ef9f : uhci_hcd efa0-efa7 : 0000:00:1f.2 efa0-efa7 : libata efa8-efab : 0000:00:1f.2 efa8-efab : libata efac-efaf : 0000:00:1f.2 efac-efaf : libata efe0-efe7 : 0000:00:1f.2 efe0-efe7 : libata fc00-fc0f : 0000:00:1f.1 fc00-fc07 : ide0 fc08-fc0f : ide1 [root@bifur /]# cat /proc/iomem 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM 000c8000-000c8fff : Adapter ROM 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-1ff2ffff : System RAM 00100000-00318ee3 : Kernel code 00318ee4-003c7e7f : Kernel data 1ff30000-1ff3ffff : ACPI Tables 1ff40000-1ffeffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage 1fff0000-1fffffff : reserved 20000000-200003ff : 0000:00:1f.1 f8000000-f9ffffff : 0000:02:09.0 fc000000-fdffffff : 0000:00:00.0 feaf8000-feafbfff : 0000:02:05.0 feaf8000-feafbfff : SysKonnect SK-98xx feaff000-feafffff : 0000:02:09.0 febff400-febff4ff : 0000:00:1f.5 febff800-febff9ff : 0000:00:1f.5 febffc00-febfffff : 0000:00:1d.7 febffc00-febfffff : ehci_hcd ffb80000-ffffffff : reserved Everything which is possible was compiled as kernel module, so, this may be helpful: root@bifur root]# lsmod Module Size Used by reiserfs 252404 1 loop 14216 0 nfsd 203424 9 exportfs 6144 1 nfsd md5 5120 1 ipv6 236576 16 autofs4 17156 2 nfs 193640 2 lockd 59304 3 nfsd,nfs sunrpc 124868 22 nfsd,nfs,lockd sk98lin 160352 0 microcode 7648 0 uhci_hcd 29968 0 ehci_hcd 31112 0 video 15108 0 button 6160 0 battery 8708 0 ac 4612 0 sd_mod 15744 4 sr_mod 15396 0 ext3 121864 2 jbd 57368 1 ext3 dm_mod 53128 3 ata_piix 7684 3 libata 40708 1 ata_piix scsi_mod 115272 3 sd_mod,sr_mod,libata Here is the kernel boot output: Linux version 2.6.12-rc4-smp-preempt (root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #5 SMP Tue May 17 19:4 6:48 MSD 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff30000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001ff30000 - 000000001ff40000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 511MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000ff780 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 20000000:dfb80000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) Detected 2400.068 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 511948k/523456k available (2167k kernel code, 10904k reserved, 712k data, 240k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09 Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000 Initializing CPU#1 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1. CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09 Total of 2 processors activated (9535.48 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed. Brought up 2 CPUs checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 333k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x290-0x297 has been reserved apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1116414990.543:0): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xfc000000 [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925 PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ICH5: chipset revision 2 ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ASUS DVD-ROM DVD-E616P 0104, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbmon: debugs is not available usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Starting balanced_irq ACPI wakeup devices: P0P4 MC97 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 EUSB ILAN ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting Mounted /proc filesystem Mounting sysfs Loading scsi_mod.ko module SCSI subsystem initialized Loading libata.ko module Loading ata_piix.ko module ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFE0 ctl 0xEFAE bmdma 0xEF60 irq 18 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFA0 ctl 0xEFAA bmdma 0xEF68 irq 18 ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 234441648 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : ata_piix ata2: SATA port has no device. scsi1 : ata_piix Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120026AS Rev: 3.20 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Loading dm-mod.ko module device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Loading jbd.ko module Loading ext3.ko module Loading sr_mod.ko module Loading sd_mod.ko module SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Creating block devices Creating root deEXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. vice Mounting rEXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. oot filesystem EXT3-fs: recovery complete. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed INIT: version 2.85 booting Welcome to Fedora Core Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Configuring kernel parameters: [ OK ] .... -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html