ATA_IDENTIFY timed out on ASUS P4VP-MX

[Søren Schmidt]

Luiz Otavio Souza wrote:
> 
> Recently one of my clients get a new (very cheap) P4VP-MX wich uses a 
> VIA VT8235 Southbridge.
> 
> This machine is not detecting (identify) ATA disk under 5.3.
> 
> I have tested with 5.3-STABLE and 5.3-RELEASE, with 4.X it works.
> 
> I tried with different disks and with CDROM, but nothing works.
> 
> The same disk run on another machines (including a P4SP-MX wich uses SIS 
> chipset) and 4.X run normaly.
> 
> I have do some code debug, and ata_getparam() get no return (no 
> interrupt is generated - ata_interrupt() never run).
> 
> The workaround of PR/73706 not work for me (my secondary ATA also fail) 
> and break another machine on tests.
> 
> I'm playing with interrupt routing, but i cant get it working.
> 
> Also tried with dma, acpi, pci.enable_io_modes and apic disabled.
> 
> There is no error on dmesg until ATA_IDENTIFY timed out.
> 
> Any ideas / workaround ?


Please try the ATA-mkIII patches+tarfile I announced last week on 
-current and -stable..


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-Søren