Hello!

I've got a cheap S-ATA controller card based on this chipset: "Initio INIC162x". When I tried to install Fedora (Core 5) or Debian Etch in that S-ATA disk I found that there is no module to support that controller, so installation can not be continued.

I found at vendor's site that there is a module for kernel 2.6

http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/down/d...nux2.6X.tar.gz

My question is: How should I compile that module in order to use during the installation? Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,
Matías

Well, fedora 5 is old and no longer supported.
The good news is: the 'sata_inic162x.ko' module is already included in
Ubuntu 7.10 and Slackware 12.

Knudfl,

Thanks for your response.
thought about ubuntu, so I tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 but unfortunatly during installation the installer wasn't able to load the module and detect the hd.
I think I should keep doing some research. Thanks to your info I'll check if ubuntu has the inic-162x module.

Regards,
Matías

Knudfl,

Well, I'm again with the box which I'm trying to install the sata hard disk with the controller based on initio 162x chipset.
Ubuntu 7.10 and as you said ubuntu has the module sata_init162x.ko, and if I do "lsmod" and the module is loaded. But unfortunatly during the install process ubuntu is not able to find the hd.
I wonder if some feature of the hd is not suppoted by the module. The hard disk is a Western Digital WD1600AABS (160 Gb) I think I need some more research.

Thanks!

Just for completeness sake: its included in Fedora as well, since release 7.

UnSpawn,

Thanks for the info! I'll try with fc 7 also to see what happens.
Booting with ubuntu 7.10 and taking a look at dmesg I found that this problem may be caused by the module. By the message shown I'm afraid that sata_inic162x doesn't support lba48. As my hd is 160 Gb I think that may be the problem.

Hmm. Maybe posting exact and complete output (preferably in BB code tags) may help.

UnSpawn,

Sorry for the delay. Here I copy the dmesg output.


[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff40000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001ff50000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001ff50000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 511MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 130880) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 130880
[ 0.000000] HighMem 130880 -> 130880
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 130880
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 130880
[ 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: 990 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 125794 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F70C0 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F70C0, 0014 (r0 ACPIAM)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 1FF40000, 0030 (r1 INTEL D845PESV 20021020 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 1FF40200, 0081 (r2 INTEL D845PESV 20021020 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 1FF40400, 3F6D (r1 INTEL D845PESV 10A MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 1FF50000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 1FF40300, 0068 (r1 INTEL D845PESV 20021020 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: ASF! 1FF44370, 0084 (r16 AMIASF I845GASF 1 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x81] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, 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 30000000 (gap: 20000000:e0000000)
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 129858
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 2399.848 MHz processor.
[ 58.917724] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 58.918210] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 58.918614] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 58.931030] Memory: 507272k/523520k available (2015k kernel code, 15688k reserved, 916k data, 364k init, 0k highmem)
[ 58.931042] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 58.931043] fixmap : 0xfff4d000 - 0xfffff000 ( 712 kB)
[ 58.931044] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 58.931045] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB)
[ 58.931048] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdff40000 ( 511 MB)
[ 58.931049] .init : 0xc03e3000 - 0xc043e000 ( 364 kB)
[ 58.931051] .data : 0xc02f7d26 - 0xc03dce84 ( 916 kB)
[ 58.931052] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f7d26 (2015 kB)
[ 58.931055] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 58.931099] SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 59.010994] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4803.88 BogoMIPS (lpj=9607770)
[ 59.011024] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 59.011032] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 59.011046] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 59.011207] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000
[ 59.011222] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[ 59.011225] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 59.011228] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
[ 59.011231] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00000400 00000000 00000000
[ 59.011243] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 59.011258] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 59.027093] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 59.027325] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 59.027665] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 59.371061] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[ 59.371145] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[ 59.373541] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 07
[ 59.373588] Total of 1 processors activated (4803.88 BogoMIPS).
[ 59.373731] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 59.373931] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 59.518237] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 59.518387] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 59.518467] Time: 12:51:15 Date: 03/22/108
[ 59.518500] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 59.518626] EISA bus registered
[ 59.518643] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 59.518759] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
[ 59.518762] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 59.518763] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 59.538648] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 59.542452] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 59.542457] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[ 59.542481] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 59.549110] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 59.549133] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 59.549585] * The chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 59.549587] * this clock source is slow. If you are sure your timer does not have
[ 59.549588] * this bug, please use "acpi_pm_good" to disable the workaround
[ 59.549638] PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[ 59.549642] PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[ 59.550098] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[ 59.550129] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 59.550300] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
[ 59.551874] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 59.552044] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
[ 59.552211] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 59.552378] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 59.552544] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 59.552712] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 59.552880] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 59.553049] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 59.553207] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
[ 59.553248] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
[ 59.553285] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
[ 59.553301] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 59.553322] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 59.553338] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[ 59.556808] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[ 59.556811] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[ 59.556818] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 59.556888] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 59.556892] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 59.560880] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 59.560883] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 59.560984] pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x400-0x47f has been reserved
[ 59.560992] pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
[ 59.560995] pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x480-0x4bf has been reserved
[ 59.560998] pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff has been reserved
[ 59.561002] pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved
[ 59.561008] pnp: 00:0d: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[ 59.561011] pnp: 00:0d: iomem range 0xc0000-0xdffff could not be reserved
[ 59.561014] pnp: 00:0d: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[ 59.561017] pnp: 00:0d: iomem range 0x100000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved
[ 59.562122] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 59.591372] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 59.591374] IO window: disabled.
[ 59.591381] MEM window: fc900000-fe9fffff
[ 59.591386] PREFETCH window: f0600000-f46fffff
[ 59.591392] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[ 59.591396] IO window: d000-dfff
[ 59.591402] MEM window: fea00000-feafffff
[ 59.591406] PREFETCH window: f4700000-f47fffff
[ 59.591427] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[ 59.591443] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 59.630082] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 59.630144] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
[ 59.630331] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 59.630455] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 59.630458] TCP reno registered
[ 59.642167] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 60.093271] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[ 60.326724] Freeing initrd memory: 7313k freed
[ 60.327220] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 60.327243] audit(1208868675.028:1): initialized
[ 60.329769] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 60.329836] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 60.329960] io scheduler noop registered
[ 60.329963] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 60.329965] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 60.329983] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 60.330065] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 60.330266] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 60.683825] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 60.717334] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 60.717458] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 60.717566] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 60.718532] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 60.719474] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 60.719751] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 60.719865] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 60.722933] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 60.722942] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 60.723166] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 60.723307] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 60.723346] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 60.723478] TCP cubic registered
[ 60.723491] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 60.723520] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 60.723720] Magic number: 4:252:886
[ 60.723886] hash matches device ptyud
[ 60.724532] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed
[ 60.764195] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 61.964630] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized<5>audit(1208868676.528:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=1182
[ 61.974830] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 61.981864] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 62.001966] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
[ 62.001984] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126]
[ 62.708866] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 62.708897] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 62.708924] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 62.709995] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 62.710090] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 62.710105] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[ 62.710110] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 62.710313] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 62.710346] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000e800
[ 62.710493] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 62.710525] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 62.710537] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 62.803511] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 62.809633] libata version 2.21 loaded.
[ 62.812855] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 62.812871] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[ 62.812876] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 62.812904] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 62.812936] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 17, io base 0x0000e880
[ 62.813055] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 62.813087] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 62.813099] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 62.916665] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 62.916681] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[ 62.916685] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 62.916721] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 62.916752] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000ec00
[ 62.916875] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 62.916908] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 62.916917] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 62.944574] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 63.021247] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 63.021267] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[ 63.021272] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 63.021330] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 63.021381] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[ 63.021389] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[ 63.021401] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 19, io mem 0xfebffc00
[ 63.032412] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 63.052304] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 63.052325] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 63.052483] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 63.052518] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 63.052533] hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[ 63.160490] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.11
[ 63.160508] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
[ 63.160517] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 63.160580] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[ 63.160695] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 63.160752] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 63.160874] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001ffa0 irq 14
[ 63.160878] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001ffa8 irq 15
[ 63.160903] ata1: port disabled. ignoring.
[ 63.211988] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 63.479782] ata2.00: ATAPI: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A, CA05, max MWDMA2
[ 63.651484] ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
[ 63.654091] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A CA06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 63.654674] sata_inic162x 0000:02:04.0: version 0.2
[ 63.654750] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 63.669300] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 63.669307] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 63.669559] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 63.674921] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 63.675309] scsi2 : sata_inic162x
[ 63.675389] scsi3 : sata_inic162x
[ 63.675420] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001d800 ctl 0x0001d402 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 20
[ 63.675424] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0001d000 ctl 0x0001de02 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 20
[ 63.806977] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 63.965190] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 64.166378] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 64.186860] ata3.00: Host Protected Area detected:
[ 64.186862] current size: 312581808 sectors
[ 64.186863] native size: -1348362576 sectors
[ 64.187059] ata3.00: native size increased to -1348362576 sectors
[ 64.187066] ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD1600AABS-00PRA0, 05.06H05, max UDMA/133
[ 64.187069] ata3.00: 18446744072361189040 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[ 64.187074] ata3.00: ERROR: This driver doesn't support LBA48 yet and may cause
[ 64.187075] data corruption on such devices. Disabling.
[ 64.187079] ata3.00: disabled
[ 64.250240] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 64.521773] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 64.902685] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 64.923939] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 65.143173] Registering unionfs 1.4
[ 65.143178] unionfs: debugging is not enabled
[ 65.167983] loop: module loaded
[ 65.354652] squashfs: version 3.2-UBUNTU (2007/07/26) Phillip Lougher
[ 111.202267] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 111.246334] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 111.284103] agpgart: Detected an Intel 830M Chipset.
[ 111.288100] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[ 111.351879] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 111.680469] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 111.924464] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (21-Jan-2007)
[ 111.924557] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH4 TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0x0460)
[ 111.924608] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[ 112.044059] intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. <4>intel_rng: If you can't or
[ 112.044062] don't want to <4>intel_rng: disable this in firmware setup, and <4>intel_rng: if
[ 112.044064] you are certain that your <4>intel_rng: system has a functional
[ 112.044065] RNG, try<4>intel_rng: using the 'no_fwh_detect' option.
[ 112.179585] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 112.672007] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 112.672039] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 112.672085] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 112.672088] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
[ 112.679197] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
[ 112.679249] pl2303 1-1:1.0: PL-2303 hack: descriptors matched but endpoints did not
[ 112.679261] pl2303 1-1:1.1: pl2303 converter detected
[ 112.679623] usb 1-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 112.679634] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
[ 112.679637] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
[ 112.688319] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is no modem.
[ 112.688333] cdc_acm: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -16
[ 112.688344] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[ 112.688347] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.25:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[ 112.886204] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input3
[ 112.891361] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 112.891420] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 113.131048] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 113.131075] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
[ 113.551142] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54921 usecs
[ 113.551146] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[ 117.226913] No dock devices found.
[ 117.357852] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4
[ 117.358136] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 117.358675] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[ 117.358720] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[ 125.320131] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 125.437052] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 129.314294] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 131.049099] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 132.489488] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 132.489564] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 132.489566] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 132.489571] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 136.360833] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 136.360839] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 136.385872] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 136.386001] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 136.386005] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8



Excuse me if it's not in the right format. I put Bold where dmesg gives the info about LBA48 not supported and device was disabled to prevent data corruption.




Regards,
Matías

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same card and have the same issues.

SpEcIeS,

Unfortunatly I could not figure out this issue. I decided to keep the board with me for some future use...


I wrote several e-mail to the board vendor (Sunix) (http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/Produc..._id=34&sid=447) but I didn't get any response.
As I could see the problem is the actual module doesn't suppor lba48 feature. So it's not possible to use a hd greater than 137 Gb. I don't have a smaller S-ATA hd to test with, but may be with a smaller disk works ok.

I think I'll insist with a couple of extra e-mail because is really disappointing because the vendor puts "linux support" on the packaging but the state of the module is no good.

Please let me know if you get the board to work.

Regards,
Matías

We'll do.

If I had known this board would cause so many problems I would have just paid more for another brand. I, like your self and probably others, purchased the controller because is indicated Linux compatibility.

What a kick in the grapes...

Can you exchange it?

Well, I sent a new e-mail to Sunix today...
Here at LQ there is another post related to this "LBA48" issue on sunix SATA-2100.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...upport-625317/

I think the best thing to do is wait for a patch on new kernels or exchange the board if that is possible.

Regards,
Matías

Well, I received some responses from Sunix.
Thay said Initio (the chipset vendor) is having some delay to realease newer versions of the module.
Sunix sent me a a tarball with a driver to test, because they said that should work with fedora core 3,4 or 5... But still they didn't confirm if lba48 feature would be supported.
Now I don't have a spare SATA hd to test but I'll do as soon as I can. If anybody want to try that driver, just tell me and I'll sent it by mail.

Matías

openSUSE 11.0 -> enough said.