Re: Hang after ahcisata

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:19:52 -0400
Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk%voicenet.com@localhost> wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:56:22 -0400
> > Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk%voicenet.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Using GENERIC on 5.0 (or -CURRENT as of today), my system hangs 
> >> immediately after probing ahcisata.  If I boot with the -c option
> >> and then disable ahcisata from userconf, the system boots up just
> >> fine (but doesn't see my SATA disks, obviously).  I have seen
> >> similar reports, mostly from 2008, mostly with suggestions to
> >> update and try again as it was a known, fixed problem.
> >>
> >>     
> > What kind of machine is it?  I've had similar problems with a Dell
> > Dimension 8400.  What I had to do was stick with a back-rev of one
> > of the ahci files, though I think that switching in the BIOS to ATA
> > emulation would work, too.
> >
> >   
> 
> This is a Dell Precision 490.   I don't mind sticking with an older 
> revision of the driver.  If you could let me know what file and
> version you are using, it would be much appreciated.

I use ahcisata_core 1.17 on -current.
> 
> Of course, I'd rather just see the bug fixed :-)
> 
Same here...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb