Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:44 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > BTW afaik you won't be able be able to control DMA on the dvd drive with > > this setup, so I'll stick to my patched kernel for the moment (= both > > disk&cdrom are assigned to ide). > > That's normal for combined mode. Until libata can

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik Slagter wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:56 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Nope. The harddisk is not SATA, it's PATA. See the links I posted earlier. That's the whole point. The controller thinks its a SATA device, so there is probably a bridge installed. I suppose it's something like that

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik Slagter wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Tyler wrote: Jeff, I think he stated in an earlier post to the list, the model number of the drive, and it is in fact a PATA drive... verified by checking fujitsu's website. Or are you just saying that it "shows up as

Re: Promise PDC20775 (SATA300 TX2plus) PATA support

2005-08-13 Thread Francesco Aruta
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:23 +0200, Raphael Bossek wrote: Will http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.11-libat= a-dev1.patch.bz2 add support for PDC20775 PATA interface? Could not find any reference to this device within the sources. Yes... I'm currently using that pa

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:56 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Nope. The harddisk is not SATA, it's PATA. See the links I posted > > earlier. That's the whole point. > > The controller thinks its a SATA device, so there is probably a bridge > installed. I suppose it's something like that. It's all v

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tyler wrote: > > Jeff, I think he stated in an earlier post to the list, the model number > > of the drive, and it is in fact a PATA drive... verified by checking > > fujitsu's website. Or are you just saying that it "shows up as sata" by

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tyler wrote: Jeff, I think he stated in an earlier post to the list, the model number of the drive, and it is in fact a PATA drive... verified by checking fujitsu's website. Or are you just saying that it "shows up as sata" by coming up as /dev/sda since its connected to a PATA port on a sata

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik Slagter wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Erik Slagter wrote: result: the pata harddisk is recognised by libata_piix and assigned /dev/sda, the dvd drive is found by the generic ide driver. (dmesg output attached) Great! That's precisely what's supposed to

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Tyler
Jeff, I think he stated in an earlier post to the list, the model number of the drive, and it is in fact a PATA drive... verified by checking fujitsu's website. Or are you just saying that it "shows up as sata" by coming up as /dev/sda since its connected to a PATA port on a sata combined cont

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Erik Slagter wrote: > > result: the pata harddisk is recognised by libata_piix and > > assigned /dev/sda, the dvd drive is found by the generic ide driver. > > (dmesg output attached) > Great! That's precisely what's supposed to happen. Exc

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik Slagter wrote: result: the pata harddisk is recognised by libata_piix and assigned /dev/sda, the dvd drive is found by the generic ide driver. (dmesg output attached) Great! That's precisely what's supposed to happen. Except, the hard drive appears to be SATA, not PATA: ata1: SATA m

Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

2005-08-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Chris Boot wrote: Some interesting developments! I installed a fresh copy of Windows, and all the VIA and nVidia and so on drivers. At some point during all this (a period of relatively heavy disk IO), the computer seemed to crash and I rebooted it. It then worked fine for a while, but dur

Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris Boot
On 13 Aug 2005, at 2:13, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Chris. Chris Boot wrote: On 12 Aug 2005, at 15:08, Tejun Heo wrote: [adding cc to Jeff Garzik. (Hi!)] Hi again, Chris. Unfortunately, I'm as lost as you are. Can you please do the followings? * Verify if read is free from the p

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:21 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Erik Slagter wrote: > Your patch was wrong because the SATA device should always be claimed by > libata. > > The system is thus: > > 1) drivers/pci/quirks.c reserves SATA ports (only!) for libata > 2) Legacy IDE driver claims the unreserve

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:30 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the > >>software status report: > >> > >>http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html > > > >