fishor wrote: > if you have this issue with new 2.6.24 kernel please attach your > complete dmesg. I need to know which hardware affected. > > I installed the 2.6.24-1 386 kernel and when it tries to boot, it generates the following messages: ata3.00 qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata3.00 failed to read native max address (err_mask 0x4) that repeated a couple of times. Then I got ata3.00 revaluation failed (errno=-5) and the whole sequence repeated if I remember. I tried adding irqpoll to the boot sequence and it didn't help any. I'm attaching a dmesg dump from booting Gutsy with the 2.26.20-16 kernel which is latest kernel. Thanks Rob [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-16.32-generic) [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] sanitize start [ 0.000000] sanitize end [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009f800 end: 000000000009f800 type: 1 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009f800 size: 0000000000000800 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000003fddf800 end: 000000003fedf800 type: 1 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003fedf800 size: 0000000000000800 end: 000000003fee0000 type: 2 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003fee0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000003fee3000 type: 4 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003fee3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 000000003fef0000 type: 3 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000003fef0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000003ff00000 type: 2 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000f0000000 size: 0000000004000000 end: 00000000f4000000 type: 2 [ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000001400000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2 [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fedf800 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fedf800 - 000000003fee0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003fee3000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fee3000 - 000000003fef0000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003ff00000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] 126MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f5eb0 [ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 261855) 0 entries of 256 used [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096 [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376 [ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 261855 [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 261855 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 261855 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 253 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 32226 pages, LIFO batch:7 [ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present. [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP-CPC ) @ 0x000f8060 [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee3040 [ 0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v001 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee30c0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee78c0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: MADT (v001 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee77c0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef Cpu0Ist 0x00003000 INTL 0x20040311) @ 0x3fee7940 [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20040311) @ 0x3fee7dd0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 [ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) [ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) [ 0.000000] Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) [ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) [ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) [ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. [ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. [ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. [ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs [ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3ff00000:b0100000) [ 0.000000] Detected 3001.007 MHz processor. [ 30.962850] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 259810 [ 30.962854] Kernel command line: root=UUID=fb444af4-46f0-480a-8f41-b5657fb15ac4 ro irqpoll [ 30.962871] Misrouted IRQ fixup and polling support enabled [ 30.962872] This may significantly impact system performance [ 30.963002] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) [ 30.963005] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) [ 30.963008] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 30.963011] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 30.963020] Initializing CPU#0 [ 30.963078] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) [ 30.964147] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 30.966975] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 30.967391] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 30.987851] Memory: 1025936k/1047420k available (1993k kernel code, 20740k reserved, 900k data, 328k init, 129916k highmem) [ 30.987915] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 30.987916] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB) [ 30.987917] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) [ 30.987918] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB) [ 30.987919] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB) [ 30.987920] .init : 0xc03d9000 - 0xc042b000 ( 328 kB) [ 30.987921] .data : 0xc02f2429 - 0xc03d36d4 ( 900 kB) [ 30.987923] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2429 (1993 kB) [ 30.988237] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 31.067050] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6031.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=12062283) [ 31.067169] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [ 31.067213] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 31.067266] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 31.067435] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000649d 00000000 00000000 [ 31.067444] monitor/mwait feature present. [ 31.067484] using mwait in idle threads. [ 31.067528] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K [ 31.067598] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K [ 31.067638] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 [ 31.067677] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 [ 31.067716] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003180 0000649d 00000000 00000000 [ 31.067727] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. [ 31.067768] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000 [ 31.067821] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 31.083170] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 31.083568] Early unpacking initramfs... done [ 31.401931] ACPI: Core revision 20060707 [ 31.407805] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... file /DSDT.aml not found, using machine DSDT. [ 31.417802] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz stepping 04 [ 31.417919] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code [ 31.418063] Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000 [ 31.428453] Initializing CPU#1 [ 31.506737] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6002.22 BogoMIPS (lpj=12004451) [ 31.506745] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000649d 00000000 00000000 [ 31.506751] monitor/mwait feature present. [ 31.506757] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K [ 31.506759] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K [ 31.506761] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 [ 31.506762] CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 [ 31.506764] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003180 0000649d 00000000 00000000 [ 31.507069] CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz stepping 04 [ 31.507472] Total of 2 processors activated (12033.36 BogoMIPS). [ 31.507660] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [ 31.507866] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 31.654681] checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed. [ 0.003961] Brought up 2 CPUs [ 0.082183] migration_cost=816 [ 0.082547] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 0.082665] Time: 23:01:38 Date: 11/10/107 [ 0.082734] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.082857] EISA bus registered [ 0.082899] ACPI: bus type pci registered [ 0.107759] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xf1f40, last bus=2 [ 0.107801] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [ 0.107841] Setting up standard PCI resources [ 0.115542] mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings [ 0.115584] mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs. [ 0.115625] mtrr: corrected configuration. [ 0.126695] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [ 0.126737] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing [ 0.127443] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [ 0.127489] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [ 0.128223] PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO [ 0.128268] PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO [ 0.128559] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 [ 0.128835] PCI: Firmware left 0000:02:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling [ 0.128963] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 [ 0.129043] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] [ 0.143140] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT] [ 0.146312] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) [ 0.146977] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 0.147707] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 0.148563] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 *15) [ 0.149246] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) [ 0.149923] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 0.150665] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 0.151406] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 0.152288] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 0.152338] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 0.155458] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices [ 0.155502] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [ 0.155590] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 0.155631] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report [ 0.174014] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 0.174055] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 0.174577] pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved [ 0.175052] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 [ 0.175093] IO window: d000-dfff [ 0.175135] MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff [ 0.175176] PREFETCH window: d8000000-dfffffff [ 0.175219] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 [ 0.175259] IO window: e000-efff [ 0.175301] MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff [ 0.175343] PREFETCH window: e4000000-ebffffff [ 0.175398] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 0.175480] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 [ 0.175492] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 [ 0.175525] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.216575] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.216758] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.217380] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.217718] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 0.217761] TCP reno registered [ 0.228671] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 0.866613] Freeing initrd memory: 8012k freed [ 0.867293] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 0.867346] audit(1197327699.632:1): initialized [ 0.867541] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages [ 0.867682] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 0.868434] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.868536] io scheduler noop registered [ 0.868606] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 0.868675] io scheduler deadline registered [ 0.868772] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 8.862827] 0000:00:1d.7 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001 [ 8.863032] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 [ 8.863075] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability [ 8.863118] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00] [ 8.863278] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 9.214765] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 9.240721] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac [ 9.240817] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 9.241533] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 9.242202] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [ 9.242484] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 [ 9.242562] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [ 9.242640] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 9.242894] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 9.245461] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 9.245506] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 9.245670] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 9.245739] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 9.275848] TCP cubic registered [ 9.275905] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 9.275975] Starting balanced_irq [ 9.276019] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 9.276145] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) [ 9.276404] Magic number: 3:191:49 [ 9.276725] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed [ 9.278024] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. [ 9.290421] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1 [ 9.463001] Capability LSM initialized [ 9.479751] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: