{"id":64,"date":"2007-02-21T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-02-21T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T15:42:56","slug":"linux-asus-m2v-attansic-ethernet-and-sata-hard-drive-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/linux-asus-m2v-attansic-ethernet-and-sata-hard-drive-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux, Asus M2V, Attansic Ethernet and SATA hard drive problems."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAt work, I got a shiny new Linux development machine &#8212; And AMD 64 Dual Core 3800+ processor running on an Asus M2V 1.xx motherboard.\n<\/p>\n<p>After installing Fedora Core 6, I ran into two problems. First, the built-in Attansic L1 Ethernet adapter wasn&#8217;t recognized. Google research revealed that an Attansic L1 driver will probably appear in the mainline Linux kernel in a few months. Rather than wait, I plugged in a supported Ethernet card.<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond, the SATA hard drive driver timed out. Occasionally, the system froze up without many error messages showing up in the system log. I logged in at the console as root and ran &#8220;<code>exec tail -f \/var\/log\/messages<\/code>&#8221;  (redirecting syslog to a remote machine is a better solution). The next time the system froze up, I saw more output in syslog. It contained approximately the following:<\/p>\n<p><pre>\nata1.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen\nata1.00 BMDMA stat 0x4 timeout\nata1.00 qc timeout (cmd 0xec)\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGoogle helped me stumble on the following workaround, which seems to work. I don&#8217;t know what it does. Edit <code>\/etc\/grub.conf<\/code>. Find the lines that say &#8220;kernel&#8221; and add &#8220;<code>acpi=force irqpoll noapic hda=noprobe<\/code>&#8221; to the end, and reboot.<\/p>\n<p><pre>\ntitle Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6)\n        root (hd0,5)\n        kernel \/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 ro root=LABEL=\/ rhgb quiet acpi=force irqpoll noapic hda=noprobe\n        initrd \/initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUseful commands (helpfully documented on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secguru.com\/article\/finding_hardware_details_of_your_linux_machine_without_using_screw_driver\">this blog<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <code>dmidecode<\/code> &#8211; tells me what motherboard I have\n<li> <code>lspci<\/code> &#8211; Tells me what built-in ethernet adapter I have\n<li> <code>cat \/dev\/cpuinfo<\/code> &#8211; Tells me about my CPU\n<\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work, I got a shiny new Linux development machine &#8212; And AMD 64 Dual Core 3800+ processor running on an Asus M2V 1.xx motherboard. After installing Fedora Core 6, I ran into two problems. First, the built-in Attansic L1 Ethernet adapter wasn&#8217;t recognized. Google research revealed that an Attansic L1 driver will probably appear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/linux-asus-m2v-attansic-ethernet-and-sata-hard-drive-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux, Asus M2V, Attansic Ethernet and SATA hard drive problems.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-linux","category-tech","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}