User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; da; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060917 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Build Identifier: 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