ATA timeout prevents booting unless IDE DMA is disabled.

[Giova84]

Haiku (hrev46447 and also previous nightlies from various months ago) fails to boot on a computer with the following specs: Motherboard: Asus Crosshair [1] Athlon 64 X2 Dualcore 4600 4 GiB DDR2 Ram Terratec Phase 22 PCI audiocard Atheros wifi PCI card Radeon x1300 PCI-E videocard Three S-ATA hdd One P-ATA hdd One S-ATA optical drive

When i attempt to boot Haiku on this computer (from live cd and also installed on the P-ATA HDD), it will hang to the fourth icon (the disk). If i select, in the boot menu, the option "Disable IDE DMA", will boot fine (from LIVE CD), instead, if i boot Haiku from the HDD, i have to select disable ide dma and also "use fail safe video mode". Because if i don't select fail safe video mode, the screen will remain black.

Syslog attached.

[1] ​http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/CROSSHAIR/#specifications

[Giova84]

There is a way to disable IDE DMA using a setting file? (every time i have to disable in the boot menu) I looked at the kernel setting file but there are no entries about DMA. Can i blacklist a driver? I noticed that in latest nightlies was introduced a black list file for this purpose.

[anevilyak]

The blacklist has nothing to do with it, as DMA is simply a setting for the IDE driver, rather than a different driver entirely. In any case, if I'm not mistaken, adding disable_ide_dma true in the kernel settings file should do the trick, though with the caveat that I haven't tested that, as I don't have a system that has this particular boot issue.

[anevilyak]

From a quick look, the ATA driver only looks to safe mode settings for that, and not the kernel file. The attached patch should address that, though again untested.

[Giova84]

Unfortunately i can't build Haiku to test this patch (ATM i only have Haiku as development system, on a small partition). In anyway, thank you for your effort!

[korli]

Can you try to boot without hard drives connected? Can you also try with "disable Local APIC"?

As a side note, you could benefit from MSI support in the IDE PCI driver. I could add this feature for you to test if you like.

[Giova84]

Yesterday i've done many tests, i disconnect all hard drives and also with "Disable LOCAL APIC" (i've tried all available options, also in combination), but issues are still present.

Would be nice try the MSI support, i will be glad to test this feature.

[korli]

By chance would you have a Linux installed also? A syslog could help to find out what's weird with this motherboard.

[Giova84]

On that computer i don't have Linux. Can i do something with a live cd of Linux Mint?

[diver]

Should work. You might need to do insmod befs to load linux bfs driver first.

[korli]

Yes a live cd is enough to obtain a syslog.

[korli]

Another test I forgot to ask sooner: please try to blacklist busses/ata/generic_ide_pci or busses/ata/legacy_ata in the bootmenu when booting from a live cd or usb disk.

[Giova84]

If i blacklist generic_ide_pci, the boot issue is still here however. The legacy_ata, instead doesn't exist on my system. I attach the syslog from linux.

[Giova84]

Syslog from Linux

[Giova84]

Replying to korli:

try to blacklist busses/ata/generic_ide_pci or busses/ata/legacy_ata in the bootmenu when booting from a live cd or usb disk.

I have tried to do this from a real installation of Haiku, since if i attempt to select this option from a live cd, i got this error: #10262

[korli]

Replying to Giova84:

If i blacklist generic_ide_pci, the boot issue is still here however. The legacy_ata, instead doesn't exist on my system. I attach the syslog from linux.

Sorry it's legacy_sata.

[Giova84]

Also if I blacklist legacy_sata, Haiku won't boot.

[korli]

Could you try to activate on-screen debug output and see what the latest messages are?

[Giova84]

ata 0 error: device selection timeout ata 0-0 error: failed to send transfer request ata 0 error: device selection timeout ata 0-0 error: failed to send transfer request ata 0 error: device selection timeout ata 0-0 error: failed to send transfer request ata 0 error: device selection timeout

And so on.

[Giova84]

Now i am on hrev46531, and i have some update about this ticket. When i start the live cd, Haiku will hang for some minutes (about 7 - 8) to the fourth icon (the disk) then will continue till the last icon and Haiku will start fine. But there are some other issues: in the mount list i can't see partitions from the P-ATA disk (i can only see partitions from the S-ATA disk and usb disks), and the IDE led on the computer case is always on.

I will attach, soon, a new syslog.

[Giova84]

New syslog

[Giova84]

In this new syslog i can read a lot of errors about ATA. And i've also found another issue: if i open any disk (S-ATA and also USB disks) in Tracker, Haiku will become unresponsive and i have to reset the system.

[Giova84]

Hi, I totally forgot this ticket, since about six months ago I've sold this computer.

[pulkomandy]

Patch migrated to Gerrit: ​https://review.haiku-os.org/56

[pulkomandy]

Patch applied in hrev54123. Closing as fixed as the original hardware showing the problem is not available for testing anymore.