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Message-ID: <4728A816.8020608@garzik.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:46 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: "Morrison, Tom" <tmorrison@...irix.com>
CC: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Other Problems with Marvell Driver - 7042 (2.6.23)...
Morrison, Tom wrote:
> I am running the 'latest' kernel retrieved from Kumar Gala's
> Powerpc git tree (mainly because I am running on a MPC8548 board)
> and it appears to be in the full 2.6.23 version while the sata_mv
> driver version seems to be 1.01.
>
> I have searched the archives, and there has been some discussion
> of a regression in the Marvell driver, but I seem to have a
> different symptom from Olaf's (I am not running a 64bit kernel -
> and I am *not* running with large (36bit) physical and resources -
> so I wouldn't have the same type of IOMMU issues)
>
> Below in the error output (using ATA_DEBUG) the driver sees the
> two drives (3 partitions on /dev/sda & 2 partitions on /dev/sdb)
> and apparently sets up everything correctly for standard access...
>
> But, when I try to mount a partition - it freezes up and gets I/O
> errors?
> Can someone give me any hints of things to try?
First you need to try 2.6.23.1 rather than 2.6.23, because it contains a
critical sata_mv fix.
Jeff
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