I think something is wrong with kudzu I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129914 but I need to give them more information on my errors. Tim... On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:49, Terrence Martin wrote: > I am seem to be having a problem where the sata_via module is getting > unloaded on boot after it is detected. > > Basically the disk is detected, sda is assigned to it, then a error is > thrown. It may be as the result of kudzu doing something. If I knew what > it was I would try to stop it. > > Once the system boots an fdisk /dev/sda fails to find a devices. This is > because the modules is not loaded at this point. > > The thing is if I reload the module after boot I can fdisk, mkfs and > mount the disk. > > I am running Fedora core 2 with the latest fedora kernel. The > motherboard is a Chaintech Summit SKT600. It is advertised as having > SATA with no RAID, although lspci says it has the 6420 controller. > Perhaps raid is just turned off. I actually was looking for the nonRAID > sata as I prefer the Linux raid. > > Below are all the particulars. The lspci output, the initial boot > messages for the device and the messages I get when I load the module > from the command line. Any suggestions on how I could get the module to > stick on boot would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Terrence > > uname -a > > Linux multi 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 #1 Tue Aug 3 09:39:58 EDT 2004 i686 athlon > i386 GNU/Linux > > Here is what lspci says about the devices > > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID > Controller (rev 80) > 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > > Here is the boot message > > Aug 15 09:59:35 multi kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized > Aug 15 09:59:35 multi kernel: libata version 1.02 loaded. > Aug 15 09:59:35 multi kernel: sata_via version 0.20 > Aug 15 09:59:35 multi kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI > 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > Aug 15 09:59:35 multi kernel: sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq > line 11 > Aug 15 09:59:35 multi kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE200 ctl > 0xE302 bmdma 0xE600 irq 11 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl > 0xE502 bmdma 0xE608 irq 11 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 > 84:4003 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 390721968 > sectors: lba48 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: scsi0 : sata_via > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: scsi1 : sata_via > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: > ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: Type: > Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr > sectors (200050 MB) > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: sda: unknown partition table > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel > 0, id 0, lun 0 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, > channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: kudzu: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism > instead of SG_IO on the actual device > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sda: > <4>FAILED > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: status = 0, message = 00, host = 1, > driver = 00 > Aug 15 09:59:36 multi kernel: > > Here is the command line module load... > > Aug 14 22:00:12 multi kernel: libata version 1.02 loaded. > Aug 14 22:00:12 multi kernel: sata_via version 0.20 > Aug 14 22:00:12 multi kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI > 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > Aug 14 22:00:12 multi kernel: sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq > line 11 > Aug 14 22:00:12 multi kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE200 ctl > 0xE302 bmdma 0xE600 irq 11 > Aug 14 22:00:12 multi kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl > 0xE502 bmdma 0xE608 irq 11 > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 > 84:4003 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 390721968 > sectors: lba48 > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: scsi2 : sata_via > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: scsi3 : sata_via > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: > ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: Type: > Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr > sectors (200050 MB) > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: sda: unknown partition table > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel > 0, id 0, lun 0 > Aug 14 22:00:13 multi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, > channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 > Aug 14 22:01:00 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr > sectors (200050 MB) > Aug 14 22:01:00 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > Aug 14 22:01:00 multi kernel: sda: sda1 > Aug 14 22:01:02 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr > sectors (200050 MB) > Aug 14 22:01:02 multi kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > Aug 14 22:01:02 multi kernel: sda: sda1 > Aug 14 22:11:24 multi kernel: XFS mounting filesystem sda1 > Aug 14 22:11:24 multi kernel: Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sda1 > Aug 14 22:16:47 multi kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. >