Rasmus Melgaard wrote:

Hi,

I have a IDE/SATA problem. I have a Silicon Image 3112 sata-controller with a 
Maxtor 160 Gb drive connected. Controller and drive is detected in the 
kernel-boot process, but an error happens during boot, I think the linux 
driver gets an response it doesn't expect.

I'm using for testing the mm-kernel: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1. Every thing seems to work 
in Windows, but since I mainly use Linux (Gentoo), I would like it to work 
here.

Does anybody have an ideer of how to proceed to solve this problem ? 

Mvh
Rasmus

Important part of log:
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus scsi1 : sata_sil
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus scsi2 : sata_sil
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0    Rev: YAR5
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI 
revision: 05
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors 
(163929 MB)
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>ata1: command 0x25 
timeout, stat 0x58 host_stat 0x60
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata1: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
DataRequest }
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Current sda: sense = 70 10
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE882E087
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE882E087
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xE882E087
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd8 host_stat 0x61
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus ata1: status=0xd8 { Busy }
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Current sda: sense = 70 10
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Sep  5 15:55:39 rasmus Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0

It's quite clearly a device error...  Try upgrading your system and card 
BIOS, try switching cables, try booting with "noapic" or "acpi=off" or 
"pci=biosirq" or something like that...

	Jeff