Bugzilla Bug 148317

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Any kernel newer than 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 fails to detect SATA disk during boot.

Problem has been reproduced on vanilla kernel (git).
git bisect says the following commit is responsible:

  d133ecab8ff1233c2eb3ecb94f7956aa10002300 is first bad commit
  commit d133ecab8ff1233c2eb3ecb94f7956aa10002300
  Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
  Date:   Wed Mar 1 01:25:39 2006 +0900
  [PATCH] ata_piix: reimplement piix_sata_probe()

See upstream report http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7170

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot any 2.6.17 (or 2.6.18) kernel

Actual Results:  
Kernel says (in part) 
  ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
  ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
  ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
  ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF)
  ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)
  ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs
  ata1: reset failed, giving up
and panics (as no boot disk i spresent)

Expected Results:  
Normal boot

Thanks, will watch upstream bug