[PVE-User] Proxmox and Intel X58

[Felix Krohn]

* Martin Maurer <martin at proxmox.com> [2009-02-20 10:14]:
> I have no such system here. Can you test Ubuntu 8.04.2 (server,
> 64-bit) and if it does not work, 8.10 server - does this work and
> which driver is loaded? 

I just played around a little bit. The 2.6.24 from Ubuntu8.04 doesn't
boot at all while ubuntu 8.10's 2.6.27-11-generic and -server boot just
fine. Here's what lsmod shows:

Module                  Size  Used by
iptable_filter         11520  0
ip_tables              28176  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               31752  1 ip_tables
parport_pc             44200  0
lp                     19588  0
parport                50096  2 parport_pc,lp
loop                   26380  0
psmouse                51612  0
s3fb                   27648  1
evdev                  20512  0
serio_raw              14596  0
button                 15904  0
shpchp                 42140  0
pci_hotplug            39216  1 shpchp
pcspkr                 11136  0
svgalib                19200  1 s3fb
vgastate               19328  1 s3fb
ipv6                  314312  48
ext3                  150544  2
jbd                    66856  1 ext3
mbcache                17924  1 ext3
sd_mod                 45864  4
crc_t10dif             10240  1 sd_mod
sg                     45408  0
ata_piix               29444  3		<========================
pata_acpi              13568  0
ata_generic            14212  0
libata                201312  3 ata_piix,pata_acpi,ata_generic
scsi_mod              183160  3 sd_mod,sg,libata
dock                   18464  1 libata
ehci_hcd               49548  0
uhci_hcd               34336  0
e1000e                128680  0
usbcore               175888  3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal                27424  0
processor              47800  9 thermal
fan                    13576  0
fbcon                  51200  70
tileblit               11264  1 fbcon
font                   17152  1 fbcon
bitblit                14592  1 fbcon
softcursor             10496  1 bitblit
fuse                   68288  1

The relevant module is ata_piix, here the dmesg excerpt:

[    3.842879] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.12
[    3.842889] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[    3.842893] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
[    3.842926] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64
[    3.843085] scsi0 : ata_piix
[    3.843374] scsi1 : ata_piix
[    3.843506] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1158 ctl 0x116c bmdma 0x1130 irq 19
[    3.843512] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1150 ctl 0x1168 bmdma 0x1138 irq 19
[    4.350123] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    4.370547] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3250310AS, 4.AAA, max UDMA/133
[    4.370550] ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[    4.410619] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    4.773093] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    4.773280] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3250310AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    4.773343] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    4.773346] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
[    4.773370] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
[    4.773852] scsi2 : ata_piix
[    4.774369] scsi3 : ata_piix
[    4.774428] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1148 ctl 0x1164 bmdma 0x1110 irq 18
[    4.774432] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1140 ctl 0x1160 bmdma 0x1118 irq 18
[    5.131276] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    5.491844] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[    5.497043] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[    5.506742] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[    5.506792] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[    5.506802] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    5.506803] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    5.506817] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    5.506861] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[    5.506869] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    5.506870] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    5.506884] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    5.506886]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[    5.539817] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

Best regards,
Felix Krohn