Bug 129034

Summary:	kernel - initialising sata subsystem causes reset of attached drive
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Armin Mohring <mohringarmin>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Armin Mohring 2006-04-06 07:35:33 UTC

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dri dvd eds emboss encode exif expat fam fastbuild ffmpeg foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde lcms lzw lzw-tiff mad memlimit mng mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb xml xml2 xpm xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

during boot, the kernel initialises the sata subsystem and prints the attached sata drives. At this moment, the drive, which contains the root directory, is reset.

Comment 1 Armin Mohring 2006-04-06 10:56:15 UTC

it is a nForce3 250GB mainboard (MSI K8Neo Platinum). The drives are connected to the SATA Ports 1 and 2.

Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-11 19:19:20 UTC

Which SATA driver is in use?
What do you mean by reset?
Is there any evidence in the log?
Does this actually cause any problems?
Has this always occurred or is it a regression?

Comment 3 Armin Mohring 2006-04-13 06:06:23 UTC

No bug; it is defective harddisk, I have just repleced this one