VIA Sata system hang

Hi,
I bought a system with MSI PM8M2-V motherboard with 2 160G seagate sata harddisk,
I did not configure any RAID controller or configuration.
The system initially works well,
but after some time, it reboots with the following error
Hardware initiate failed, please check device!!!
The bios dose not be installed . press <g> to continue!
Sometimes, just reboot after failure, system will boot up,
but sometimes, it is stuck at this error message without booting up the system.Why?
Is it because it did not read the harddisks?
I read from the Internet that it maybe something to do VIA motherboard & sata harddisk,
there is no record of any errors in the event viewer for the reboot.
But there is no straight forward answer to the problem.
I have updated latest drivers including the RAID controller software from your website.
Could someone please advise me what is the correct steps to retify the issue?
Thank you.

May I know how to disable RAID?
I can't seem to find the settings

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Linux version 2.6.26-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080724 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 10 12:29:20 UTC 2008
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BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000feda6000 (reserved)
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BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
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896MB LOWMEM available.
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HighMem 229376 -> 1048576
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Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 6400 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 812800 pages, LIFO batch:31
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
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ACPI: RSDP 000FBBF0, 0024 (r2 DELL )
ACPI: XSDT EFE6F200, 005C (r1 DELL M08 27D80203 ASL 61)
ACPI: FACP EFE6F09C, 00F4 (r4 DELL M08 27D80203 ASL 61)
ACPI: DSDT EFE6F800, 5658 (r2 INT430 SYSFexxx 1001 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: FACS EFE7E000, 0040
ACPI: HPET EFE6F300, 0038 (r1 DELL M08 1 ASL 61)
ACPI: APIC EFE6F400, 0068 (r1 DELL M08 27D80203 ASL 47)
ACPI: MCFG EFE6F3C0, 003E (r16 DELL M08 27D80203 ASL 61)
ACPI: SLIC EFE6F49C, 0176 (r1 DELL M08 27D80203 ASL 61)
ACPI: BOOT EFE6EFC0, 0028 (r1 DELL M08 27D80203 ASL 61)
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IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
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ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
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PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000
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PERCPU: Allocating 39464 bytes of per cpu data
NR_CPUS: 16, nr_cpu_ids: 2
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Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1556dc58-8b8c-44dd-87d9-7640a2dff1d6 ro vga=795
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mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
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Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
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PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Extended CMOS year: 2000
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Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 3890736k/4194304k available (2105k kernel code, 38512k reserved, 738k data, 264k init, 3013044k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffee4000 - 0xfffff000 (1132 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
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.data : 0xc030e78e - 0xc03c7380 ( 738 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc030e78e (2105 kB)
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SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
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CPU: L2 cache: 6144K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
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CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz stepping 06
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Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4989.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=8312455)
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 6144K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
Intel machine check architecture supported.
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CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz stepping 06
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
Total of 2 processors activated (9983.32 BogoMIPS).
net_namespace: 652 bytes
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PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base f0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 63
PCI: MCFG area at f0000000 reserved in E820
PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
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ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
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pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 1080-10bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 11) *4
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pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
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system 00:09: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:09: ioport range 0x1000-0x1005 has been reserved
system 00:09: ioport range 0x1008-0x100f has been reserved
system 00:0a: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
system 00:0a: ioport range 0x1006-0x1007 has been reserved
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system 00:0a: ioport range 0x1080-0x10bf has been reserved
system 00:0a: ioport range 0x10c0-0x10df has been reserved
system 00:0a: ioport range 0x1010-0x102f has been reserved
system 00:0a: ioport range 0x809-0x809 has been reserved
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system 00:0b: iomem range 0x9f000-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xc0000-0xcffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0x100000-0xefe6d7ff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xefe6d800-0xefefffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xeff00000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xeff00000-0xf06fffff could not be reserved
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system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfeda0000-0xfeda3fff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfeda4000-0xfeda4fff could not be reserved
system 00:0b: iomem range 0xfeda5000-0xfeda5fff could not be reserved
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MEM window: 0xfa000000-0xfeafffff
PREFETCH window: 0x00000000f4000000-0x00000000f7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
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MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
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MEM window: 0xf9f00000-0xf9ffffff
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PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.3
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MEM window: 0xf9c00000-0xf9efffff
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PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
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PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.3:pcie03]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfb000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 10240k, total 14336k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x32, linelength=5120, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:b650
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cb6b3, set palette = c00cb70e
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
registered taskstats version 1
Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
No dock devices found.
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.1 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.12
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x6fa0 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x6fa8 irq 15
ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T21N, A102, max UDMA/33
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata2: port disabled. ignoring.
scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-T21N A102 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
scsi2 : ata_piix
scsi3 : ata_piix
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x6eb0 ctl 0x6eb8 bmdma 0x6ee0 irq 17
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x6ec0 ctl 0x6ec8 bmdma 0x6ee8 irq 17
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATA-8: WDC WD2500BEVS-75UST0, 01.01A01, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 8: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2500BEVS-7 01.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
XFS mounting filesystem sda3
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sda3
rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc0: alarms up to one month, y3k
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:03:00.0
b44.c:v2.0
eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:1d:09:d2:f2:e9
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,09/20/2007, 4.170.25.12) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0c:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
wlan0: ethernet device 00:16:44:b5:93:db using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4aa190c, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4315.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ACPI: SSDT EFE6E4B0, 02C8 (r1 PmRef Cpu0Ist 3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT EFE6DE46, 05E5 (r1 PmRef Cpu0Cst 3001 INTL 20050624)
Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state
Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-2 state
Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-3 state
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: ACPI0007:00 is registered as cooling_device0
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: SSDT EFE6E778, 00C4 (r1 PmRef Cpu1Ist 3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: SSDT EFE6E42B, 0085 (r1 PmRef Cpu1Cst 3000 INTL 20050624)
ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: ACPI0007:01 is registered as cooling_device1
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input2
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: LNXTHERM:01 is registered as thermal_zone0
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (25 C)
dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2)
sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 20, io base 0x00006f20
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: WMI: Mapper loaded
Linux agpgart interface v0.103
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.1[b] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 21, io base 0x00006f00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1a.7[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1a.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 22, io mem 0xfed1c400
ACPI: device:32 is registered as cooling_device2
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
ACPI: device:37 is registered as cooling_device3
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input6
ACPI: Video Device [VID1] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input7
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 20, io base 0x00006f80
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
ricoh-mmc: Ricoh MMC Controller disabling driver
ricoh-mmc: Copyright(c) Philip Langdale
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[b] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 21, io base 0x00006f60
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input8
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 22, io base 0x00006f40
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 20, io mem 0xfed1c000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ricoh-mmc: Ricoh MMC controller found at 0000:03:01.2 [1180:0843] (rev 12)
ricoh-mmc: Controller is now disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:01.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[f9bfd800-f9bfdfff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:03:01.1 [1180:0822] (rev 22)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:01.1[b] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xf9bfd400 irq 18 DMA
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -136278622 ns)
usb 7-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04793/0x300000
serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
usb 7-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input9
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26).
input: Laptop Integrated Webcam as /class/input/input10
usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
XFS mounting filesystem sda5
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sda5
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[444fc0001a3d01c1]
Adding 2522164k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2522164k
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
fuse init (API version 7.9)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Firefox 3.6 when I open a SWF file, a wrong mouse click, it show a recursive open window until the PC resource is used up or the system hang up, I try to reinstall firefox but not solved.

Windows XP SP3, flash player 10.2, Shockwave 11.5.9.240 , when I open a SWF file with firefox 3.6.15, it shows some options to choose action and I made a wrong click. The firefox nightmare is a "open recursive windows" until the system hang. When I use Internet Explorer 8 to open it, it is fine, Try to uninstall firefox and reinstall it, but in vain, how can I restore it?

You don't have the Shockwave Flash Player installed for Firefox. You may have the ActiveX version installed for IE, but Firefox needs the Plugin version. And Shockwave 11.5.9.240 that is installed for Firefox isn't the same thing.
1.Download the Flash setup file from here: 
[http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe Adobe Flash - Plugin version]. 
''Or maybe get the previous '''r102''' version from here. IMO, there's problems with the latest version of Flash.'' 
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html 
Save it to your Desktop. 
2. Close Firefox using File > Exit 
then check the Task Manager > Processes tab to make sure '''firefox.exe''' is closed, 
{XP: Ctrl+Alt+Del, Vista: Shift+Ctrl+ESC = Processes tab}
3. Then run the Flash setup file from your Desktop.
* On Vista and Windows 7 you may need to run the plugin installer as Administrator by starting the installer via the right-click context menu if you do not get an UAC prompt to ask for permission to continue (i.e nothing seems to happen). 
See this: 
[http://vistasupport.mvps.org/run_as_administrator.htm]

Can't access XP PRO on Via SATA with Promise SATA enabled......

Here's the deal.....I just bought a WD 250GB SATA drive. I currently have 2 WD raptors on VIA in RAID 0(dual boot w/win XP PRO). I installed new SATA using Promise controller and set it up as 1 disk RAID. This works fine with my IDE harddrive(Dual boot w/XP home), however, when I try to boot for the Raptors(VIA sata) I get can't start windows missing or corrupt file (windows root)/system32/hal.dll. Now, when I disable the Promise RAID, XP PRO on VIA RAID boots fine. Do these 2 controllers not work together? or am I just missing something??? Your help is appreciated....

When you enable the Promise controller, you're no longer able to boot from the VIA Raid. You need to use the Promise RAID/SATA to boot from, or an IDE device. Windows will see the VIA RAID controller, so you can setup a data-storage partition (or something like that) on the VIA.
Now, you probably want to move your Raptors to the Promise controller, just to make use of both controllers and to boot from your Raptors. If so, you can try the following.
1. Backup your disks - there's a 50/50% chance that this will not work, but it's worth a try and I managed to do it several times;
2. Now, boot up your system and install the Promise drivers (you have to play with this a bit, I don't know anymore how I did it last time. I think you have to enable the Promise controller in BIOS without connecting any drive. You'll still be able to boot from the VIA controller);
3. Shut down Windows and PC;
4. Connect drives from VIA controller to Promise controller;
5. Start system and enter Promise RAID Setup utility (watch your screen to see what keys to use - I'm at work now, and cannot check it for you);
6. Setup a RAID-array (exactly like you had it on the VIA - you may want to check using VIA config tool in Windows for block size, etc.);
7. When you setup this raid, the Promise uitl will give you a choice, how to proceed. One of these choices is to only initialize the array. Choose that one. The other option will destroy your data;
8. exit and reboot and hope that it will work. somethimes it does, sometimes it does not.

Lion 10.7.1 system hangs after reboot

Strange, I have just updated to 10.7.1 (via SW update) on my Macbook Pro and now the system does not boot. It restarted and now hangs since minutes with the spinning wheel on a grey screen. Anyone experienced this, too? Any solutions?
Thanks a lot.
Tom

http://jrause.com/blog/?p=165http://jrause.com/blog/?p=165
bighugewhaledork wrote:
Regarding the occasional system hang on reboot people are experiencing. I have two troubleshooting suggestions to help you get to the login screen, but aren't solutions to the problem of whatever is causing the system hang. 1) I find my hangs are usually solved by removing my USB devices from the 2 USB ports (via USB hubs) and rebooting. 2) Furthermore, if I boot into verbose mode (holding command+v right before the chime) (sometimes after removing the USB devices, sometimes not), that usually helps the boot process along, either due to just chance (I don't know why booting into verbose mode would help it surmount the initial hang, but it seems to work sometimes) or some other reason.
Good luck.
Yeah that better be one big fat good luck there, because that advice is not going to help anyone that is having this problem. Not one little bit. Some kind of magic that Verbose Mode casts will fix it? Uh, no. That would be a figment of your over-eager imagination, Verbose Mode doesn't change anythig. Oh and by the way, in order to get to this stage in the probelm, you would have had to use verbose mode to get the error message. I can only assume that you sir are the real troll here, because our friend above asked a question that is worth merit and consideration, given the compatibility disaster that Apple has on their hands. To call it a disaster is not in the least bit an exaggeration.
We're going to have to ignore This is not an "occassional system hang", this is a serious problem affecting my MacBook Pro 17" and my iMac 27"., and it occured on both of them for me after installing Lion Server.
My blog post tracking the issue is here:
http://jrause.com/blog/?p=165

Neo2 BIOS 3.3 Disables VIA SATA Raid AND Promise IDE3 RESOLVED

I recently corrputed my VIA SATA Raid installation of Windows by overclocking my FSB. I have since read that you can't do this, and I definitely learned my lesson.
But in the process of attempting recovery, I upgraded my BIOS from 1.8 to 3.3. (I know, didn't really keep up on that =)
Now I have a strange problem. I can't have both the Promise controller ENABLED as well as the VIA SATA enabled. During boot, if the Promise controller is Enabled and has an IDE HDD plugged into it (important!) which was created by this Promise controller a few months ago, the VIA SATA section of BIOS boot does not show up. It will not even show the text where it is looking for attached drives. Herein lies the problem.
Here are a few scenarios. If I unplug all drives from the Promise IDE connector, but leave it enabled, it will proceed to the VIA section of BIOS boot right after the Realtek initialization. It will also show the VIA section of the BIOS boot if I disable the Promise in the Integrated Devices section of the BIOS.
But, if I leave a single drive connected to the Promise IDE connector, and have them both enabled in BIOS (VIA "On Board" is ENABLED and Promise is set to RAID) then the only boot options I see are the Promise section, where it will correctly identify the IDE drive connected to it (remember, it was made a drive by that very same controller chip a few months back) and then proceed to the Realtek initialization. After that, there is no VIA section at all.
Interestingly, if you hit DEL to go into setup anytime during the scenario where there is no VIA init section, the VIA SATA drives do not show up on the Boot Sequence at all. It is like it is not there at all, which I suspected since it wasn't showing up during BIOS boot.
SO. This leaves me with the unfortunate scenario of not being able to use one or the other. The only thing I can think of is that I updated my BIOS revision. Please, is someone able to duplicate this, or is there a known workaround? I would hate to lose half of the functionality of the mboard as far as additional controllers goes.
I will add my config below just in case that helps:
K8T Neo 2
AMD 3500+
2 x Kingston 3500 HyperX 512
Antec NeoPower 480w
2 x 36GB Raptors SATA (Drives I am attempting to run on VIA for boot)
2 x IDE drives (Maxtor 250GB and WD 160GB) on the Promise IDE 3 channel (sometimes anyway =)
2 x CD ROM on IDE 1
2 x IDE drives (WD 60GB and WD 120GB) on IDE 2 (I leave these unplugged during windows install and T/S'ing this problem)
ATI Radeon X800XTPE
I hope that is all you would need to know about the box.
Thanks for your ideas.

Quote from: Tiresmoke on 09-April-05, 22:52:31
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=608&kind=1
I trslly would suggest first though to do a Bios reset and then re-examine the problems if any and let's see if we can track and sort them out.
The first thing I found odd is that you claimed to have updated the Bios from 1.8 and there is no version 1.8 for the Neo2's. Their Bios range starts at 3.0 and that is the lowest number you should have been at.
Second let's take a look at your Bios settings. Typically when you flash a Bios you have to go back and reset the bios again to what is needed for your rig. Otherwise the default settings may not allow you to run your system at all properly.
I appreciate your looking at this with me Tiresmoke. You must be right on the previous BIOS version. It is my original Neo that I am thinking of for 1.8. Now that you mention that, I don't know what the previous BIOS version is, but I am now going to assume it was the original.
Tracking through it though has been strange. Another change I noticed is that my RAM would no longer run at DDR400. It was stuck at DDR333 no matter what I did. I had to move the Kingston 3500 that I had from 1/2 to 1/3 to get it to work. Something must have changed in the BIOS update to make that happen, as it was running fine before that, and differences in operation at that level have nothing to do with whether I corrupted my RAID based windows install.
The boot order is as follows:
1) Promise Controller (Press CTRL + F)
2) Realtek LAN Boot (Press SHIFT + F10)
>
3) VIA RAID Controller.
It is #3 that will not show up if there is a drive attached to the Promise controller. This has got me completely stumped. Is there a direction we can go with T/S'ing this?
Thx.

Com.apple.launchd DumpPanic - System hangs for 5 mins on boot

We've been having a problem with one of our Mac Pro's for a while now.
It hangs for about 5 mins on boot - slowly gets past grey screen and hangs on blue screen.
The Mac is a 2.66 Quad-Core Intel.
The problems began a while back, when running photoshop - the scratch disk filled the hard disk entirely on a really large document and the whole system died. On reboot the system started to hang in the boot process and has done ever since.
The system also appears to be sluggish and doesn't respond as well as an identical machine next to it.
I checked the boot log and noticed a few issues, some of which i've now fixed - ie a faulty USB device causing some problems.
This is what i've got now:
28/04/2011 12:41:53 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
28/04/2011 12:41:53 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.usbmuxd) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
28/04/2011 12:41:53 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
28/04/2011 12:41:53 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.x.privileged_startx) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
28/04/2011 12:41:58 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpPanic[29]) Exited with exit code: 1
28/04/2011 12:47:10 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[76]) Exited: Terminated
28/04/2011 12:47:10 com.apple.launchd[81] (org.x.startx) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
28/04/2011 12:47:12 com.apple.launchd[81] ([email protected][85]) Exited with exit code: 1
What i've tried:
Repair Disk Permissions - using disk utility and disk warrior.
Cleaned cache and settings using Maintenance and Onyx.
Turned off automatic time/date setting from server.
I then backed up and reinstalled the OS.
The OS is now on a separate 160GB SATA drive, with the previous 500GB SATA system drive as data storage.
I have installed back to 10.5.8 and still get this problem.
It seems to me that there is a delay of about 5 minutes after this line:
com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.DumpPanic[29]) Exited with exit code: 1
However after LOTS of googling and scouring forums i can't seem to find a definitive answer as to why this problem exists.
Can anyone help me?
My next step is to book an appointment with a Genius, but thought i'd ask on here first.
Another strange conundrum is that if i try to upgrade to Snow Leopard, i insert the disc - open up the installer - click restart and the system restarts, but nothing gets installed.
Thanks in advance for any support you can provide.
Cheers,
Rob

I took this machine into the Genius bar yesterday and they managed to fix it after about 45 minutes of tinkering.
The error i've detailed above is a kernel error, caused by something not loading properly as the system boots.
First of all it took ages to boot to the installed Leopard, so they tried booting to an external drive with a clean install, but that was no quicker.
They ran hardware analysis and everything seemed fine.
The fix was to clone snow leopard across from a pre-installed clean version on an external drive, onto the internal HDD and that did the trick - its back up and running and is quick as ever before.
Thanks Genii

System hangs in audio cd insertion

Hello.
Recently noticed some strange behavior when inserting audio cd's. My system hangs on accessing the dvd-drive and kde/hal doesn't seem to be able to handle it. Doesn't seem to be a problem with data cd's/dvd's except for perhaps an increased access time increased by a minor amount. I cannot tell for how long this has been an issue as I do not use my dvd-drive that much. All drives are sata. Any suggestions?
Cheers.
from dmesg:
ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata4.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:04:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 16388 in
cdb 43 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
res 40/00:02:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
ata4: hard resetting link
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata4: EH complete
From /var/log/messages.log
Jan 28 13:53:35 master ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Jan 28 13:53:35 master ata4.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S183A, SB03, max UDMA/33
Jan 28 13:53:35 master ata4.00: applying bridge limits
Jan 28 13:53:35 master ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
Jan 28 13:53:35 master scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3320620AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Jan 28 13:53:35 master scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S183A SB03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Jan 28 13:53:35 master ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFID] enabled at IRQ 5
[x@master ~]$ lshwd
00:00.0 Class 0580: nVidia Corp.|CK804 Memory Controller (unknown)
00:01.0 Class 0601: nVidia Corp.|CK804 ISA Bridge (unknown)
00:01.1 Class 0c05: nVidia Corp.|CK804 SMBus (i2c-nforce2)
00:02.0 Class 0c03: nVidia Corp.|CK804 USB Controller (unknown)
00:02.1 Class 0c03: nVidia Corp.|CK804 USB Controller (unknown)
00:06.0 Class 0101: nVidia Corp.|CK804 IDE (amd74xx)
00:07.0 Class 0101: nVidia Corp.|CK804 Serial ATA Controller (sata_nv)
00:08.0 Class 0101: nVidia Corp.|CK804 Serial ATA Controller (sata_nv)
00:09.0 Class 0604: nVidia Corp.|CK804 PCI Bridge (unknown)
00:0b.0 Class 0604: nVidia Corp.|CK804 PCIE Bridge (unknown)
00:0c.0 Class 0604: nVidia Corp.|CK804 PCIE Bridge (unknown)
00:0d.0 Class 0604: nVidia Corp.|CK804 PCIE Bridge (unknown)
00:0e.0 Class 0604: nVidia Corp.|CK804 PCIE Bridge (unknown)
00:18.0 Class 0600: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration (unknown)
00:18.1 Class 0600: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map (unknown)
00:18.2 Class 0600: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller (unknown)
00:18.3 Class 0600: Advanced Micro Devices|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control (amd64-agp)
01:00.0 Class 0300: nVidia Corp.|GeForce 6600 GT (vesa)
05:06.0 Class 0401: Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) (snd-emu10k1)
05:06.1 Class 0980: Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) (emu10k1-gp)
05:0b.0 Class 0c00: Texas Instruments|TSB43AB22 IEEE1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/Link-Layer Ctrlr (ohci1394)
05:0c.0 Class 0200: Marvell Semiconductor Inc.|88E8001 Gigabit Lan PCI Controller (skge)
From lshal
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_CD/DVDW_SH_S183A'
block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string)
block.is_volume = false (bool)
block.major = 11 (0xb) (int)
block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int)
block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_CD/DVDW_SH_S183A' (string)
info.addons = {'hald-addon-storage'} (string list)
info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block', 'storage.cdrom'} (string list)
info.category = 'storage' (string)
info.interfaces = {'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable'} (string list)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_54_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0' (string)
info.product = 'CD/DVDW SH-S183A' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_CD/DVDW_SH_S183A' (string)
info.vendor = 'TSSTcorp' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sr0' (string)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames = {'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths = {'hal-storage-eject', 'hal-storage-closetray'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names = {'Eject', 'CloseTray'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures = {'as', 'as'} (string list)
storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool)
storage.bus = 'scsi' (string)
storage.cdrom.bd = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.bdr = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.bdre = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.cdr = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.cdrw = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvd = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusr = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrdl = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrw = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrwdl = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdr = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdram = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdrw = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.hddvd = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.hddvdr = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.hddvdrw = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.mo = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.mrw = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.mrw_w = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.read_speed = 7056 (0x1b90) (int)
storage.cdrom.support_media_changed = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.support_multisession = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.write_speed = 8468 (0x2114) (int)
storage.cdrom.write_speeds = {'8468', '7056', '5645', '4234', '2823', '1412'} (string list)
storage.drive_type = 'cdrom' (string)
storage.hotpluggable = false (bool)
storage.lun = 0 (0x0) (int)
storage.media_check_enabled = true (bool)
storage.model = 'CD/DVDW SH-S183A' (string)
storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool)
storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
storage.partitioning_scheme = '' (string)
storage.removable = true (bool)
storage.removable.media_available = false (bool)
storage.removable.media_size = 487464960 (0x1d0e2000) (uint64)
storage.removable.support_async_notification = false (bool)
storage.requires_eject = true (bool)
storage.size = 0 (0x0) (uint64)
storage.vendor = 'TSSTcorp' (string)
Last edited by ndlarsen (2009-01-28 14:05:24)

Hi,
I have a very similar issue, see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=487990
Could you please list your mainboard, disk models and cd/dvd rom model?
Are you using 64 bit Archlinux?
My specs are:
mainboard: Asus P5Q Pro
sda: Western Digital Caviar SE (WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1)
sdb: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (ST3200822AS)
dvd: NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A
And 64 bit Archlinux.

System Hangs after adding Storage :(

First dont jump on me for mentioning a 4800 this is storage related.
Solaris 8
Brocade 3850(SUN Branded)
SUN Samfs(4.2.8, running 5 months)
EMC Clarion(Old existing and always seen in config)
Infortend FC-SATA array(Newly added)
I have added some FC-SATA drives to my 4800s. The process of adding these drives was done by a 'cfgadm -c configure <Controller #>'. Following this the disks are seen, striped and shared with SAMFS. All is good at this point.
During reboot the systems hangs just after the boot message of "System is coming up". I think it is at the point of finding mount points and doing an 'fsck', but the system never completes(+45 minutes).
When I drop back to the original configuration prior to the 'cfgadm' the system then boots just fine, but I then need to do 'cfgadm -c .....' to see the drives and mount my SAMFS partitions.
Any ideas?

SimonM
The disks can be seen when I attach the storage with a 'cfgadm -c configure <controller #>' and the system up and running. After dynamicly attaching the storage I can create filesystems, use SAMFS to share the filesystem out, and all is good across all machines.
I only have an issue later in life when a reboot(hate for a panic) occurs. Some sunsolve/goggle'ing found some old document that were very dated that pointed to the path_to_inst and fiber not playing well.
I am not 100% sure that the system has hit the mount/fsck processes or not but it is the next sequence in the boot process. I know it is storage/config related because (1) adding the new disks is the only thing that changed on the system, (2) returning the OS back to its original configuration before the disks being added allows everything to boot fine. I was just looking for some pointer of where to begin troubleshooting.
I will keep everyone updated. Like I said I only get a couple of hours every month if I am lucky.

System hangs while booting 2.6.38

My system hangs, while booting 2.6.38
The picture from the screen is here: http://bildr.no/view/844865 (the picture is not mine, but it's the same).
/ is located on raid1 array. Boot is separated to ext2.
Grub:
# (2) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/md1 ro md=1,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2 md=2,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 radeon.modeset=1 elevator=noop
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
Tried nomodeset and removing "elevator=noop".
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD780 Northbridge only dual slot PCI-e_GFX and HT1 K8 part
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port A)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4550]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
04:07.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI
04:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
The same here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115190
Last edited by vit (2011-03-24 03:59:23)

The system is booting and hangs in other place.
Updated to .38.1
Doesn't help.
Last edited by vit (2011-03-24 15:29:49)

System hangs with radeon card and vgaswitcheroo

I have an HP Envy 17-3200 with an integrated HD4000 (i915) and an ATI M7850 (radeon). These modules are both included in the kernel via mkinitcpio. I am using systemd but have enabled the rc-local service to run at boot (rc.local is run). This turns off the discrete card via vgaswitcheroo. Given this configuration, the system boots normally into gdm. However, when I attempt to switch graphics cards via:
$ echo DDIS > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
$ sudo systemctl restart gdm.service
The system hangs (I have to force a reset). This happens regardless of whether I echo OFF into vgaswitcheroo. This does not happen if I restart gdm without switching cards.
I know the radeon driver is loaded and associated with my card as:
$ lspci -k
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1853
Kernel driver in use: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 6827 (rev ff)
Kernel driver in use: radeon
I'm not even sure of what log to look in to narrow down the problem.
NOTE: This seems to be related to this post. That problem was at boot time and mine was not, though. In addition, no one replied to that post, so I thought I might make a new one.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37528
I am not 100% sure, but I think that is the answer to your question. Not very satisfying, but I have the same problem. It's impossible to get it working.
Maybe Wayland will solve the issue, someday... when we've already bought new laptops... which by that time won't be supported by Wayland. ;-)

IMac G5 system hang - 2 bad 1GB memory modules?

I am experiencing intermittent system hangs, requiring power off / on to recover. Applications run fine for hours, then everything freezes; a few seconds later the fans spool up full bore. There seems to be no logic to the failure. It happens on many different applications, including Disk Utility. No new software has been added recently (other than Apple software updates). This has been occuring for several weeks.
I repair permissions & run disk verify. When disk utility runs completely without hanging (on verify), everything is ok.
Applecare had me trash the ~/Library/Caches & system caches. No joy. They recommended archive & install beginning with Panther. Reinstall went ok until downloading updates for 10.4.8, then hang (might this suggest a hardware prob?).
Rebooted in target firewire mode the cloned drive, then zero'ed the G5 HDD and restored from clone (SuperDuper!). Everything appeared ok for several days, then the same system hang reappeared. I should mention that in the course of sudying this one, I discovered Virex 7.5 was sucking the processing life from the G5; used the uninstaller to get rid of it & the iMac is quiet again!
I have run the Applecare version of Techtools and the Hardware Test Disk, everything passes.
I could do a clean install of Tiger, then use migration assistant to move data from the clone...if I felt it had a chance to solve it. On the other hand, maybe its a flaky hardware gremlin and I'm wasting my time doing reinstalls, and I should hustle it over to the local Apple store.
Update - took iMac for service at Apple store where it failed under stress test with my 2 GB of memory but ran for an extended period with Apple memory. In an attempt to isolate which of the two 1 GB modules was bad, removed one module. Identical failure after 24 hrs. Howver, swapping out that failing module with the second module, identical hand. That suggests either both 1 GB modules are bad (unikely), or some other hardware issue is the problem.
Problem seems to occur most often when starting playing iTunes, or running Disk Utility (repair permissions).
I suppose the next step is to buy 1 GB of memory from Apple and make it fail again. Any suggestions?

Thank you for your posts, I appreciate it.
Skip - I tried a spare keyboard & mouse. Still failed.
MGW - all software is up to date.
DaddyPaycheck - I downloaded memtestosx. It fails testing each 1GB memory module separately (in different sockets). I'm running in multiuser mode and when it fails the entire iMac freezes up (just like it always does), requiring power off / power on. Is this normal behavior when the memtestosx test fails?
I will plan to test in single user mode as the supplied doc states that if the onboard cache is failing it would pass singleuser (cache apparently disabled in singleuser mode) but fail multiuser. Maybe the onboard cache is bad?
Thanks.

VIA Sata system hang

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