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Ben Halstead

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:14 am
Post subject: Mandrake 10 RC1 - SATA Install
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I'm trying to install Mandrake 10 RC1 onto a MSI KT6V-LSR (VT8237
Southbridge), using an IBM hard drive.

The system recognises the chipset and appears to load libata OK but I
cannot format the hdd (it just about managed to write the partition table).

some excerpts from dmesg

Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for pio modes, override with idebus=xx
VIA 8237 SATA IDE controller@PCI slot 000:00:0f.0
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-oxdc07, BIOS settings hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-oxdc0f, BIOS settings hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda HDS 722 516 VLSA 80, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xec00-0xec07, 0xe802 on irq 17
VP_IDE
ide2: BM_DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings hde:DMA, hdf:pio
ide3: BM_DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA
hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive


hda: max request size: 1024 KiB
hda: lost interrupt
(repeated several times)

hda: 321672960 sectors (164696 MB) w/7938 KiB cache CHS=20023/255/63
hda: lost interrupt
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
hda: DMA interrupt recovery

The last three messages keep repeating.
How do I stop them ?
I've seen some suggestions in kernel posts suggesting some form of
hdParm might force the drive into DMA mode, which is presumably the
problem but I'm not clear how to do this as part of the install.

Any hints ?

Ben Halstead

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Molchun

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:01 pm
Post subject: Re: Mandrake 10 RC1 - SATA Install [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Ben Halstead wrote:

 > Any hints ?

Try passing "pci=noacpi" to the kernel, if it helps good if not try
passing "acpi=off" if this helps then you have a trade off - ACPI or SATA.
If none of the above helps then I don't know but you can always try
upgrading to newer kernel (2.6.4 should be out in a week or so), SATA
drivers are new and get updated/cleaned up very often.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:21 am
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I have now successfully installed MDK 10 RC1 on the SATA disk, sort of.

The most important thing is using the kernel option noapic. Without
this no progress is possible.

However that's not the end of it.
Using the default install kernel (2.6.3) the SATA interface is
identified as an IDE interface, with the attached drive in pio mode (hda).

Using the alternate kernel (2.4.25) the SATA interface is recognised as
SATA and the attached drive listed as sda.

The problem appears to be that 2.6.3 identifies the interface as an IDE
interface before it loads libata (libata 0.81). When it loads libata it
correctly identifies the SATA interface but does not set up the scsi
device, as the drive is already pointing to hda.
2.4.25 does not appear to recognise the SATA interface at all, until
libat (0.75) is loaded.

In an (un?)related issue, the soundchip does not function in either
kernel but I forgot to take a note of the error message, something about
cpu_overlad in arts.

It seems the logical option is to install the 2.4.25 kernel and then
attempt to build a custom 2.6 kernel.

What does noapic mean, or more specifically, does it need to be included
because of a bios error or a libata error ?

All suggestions gratefully received.

Ben
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