[2.6 patch] libata: remove unused functions

2007-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the following obsolete functions: - libata-core.c: __sata_phy_reset() - libata-core.c: sata_phy_reset() - libata-eh.c: ata_qc_timeout() - libata-eh.c: ata_eng_timeout() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 78

Tejun collecting libata patches this week

2007-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
I'm about to disappear (virtually) through Friday for vacation. Tejun Heo has agreed to collect libata bug fix patches in my absence. Thanks! Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 10.11.2007 00:32, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: [...] My computer/mainboard @work has such a broken BIOS. Of the 5 SATA-Ports this MB has only 1 (and 1 missing that is reported by linux but i can't find on the MB) is configured as AHCI [...] There is nothing broken here. You have a ICH8

Re: linux-ata.org contributions

2007-11-11 Thread James Andrewartha
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 18:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:11:39 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Whenever you want to update or add a page, just send a 'git pull' request to me... Or patches, if you wish to avoid

Hang during boot in piix_init_pcs (ata_piix.c) with macbook pro

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Rohwer
Hello, I am using kernel 2.6.23 with the driver drivers/ata/ata_piix.c on my macbook pro. About every fourth boot hangs. I tried to narrow down the problem by putting in dome printk statements and found (at least on 2 hangs so far) that the msleep(150) in piix_init_pcs does not return:

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-11 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 11.11.2007 15:05, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 10.11.2007 00:32, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: [...] My computer/mainboard @work has such a broken BIOS. Of the 5 SATA-Ports this MB has only 1 (and 1 missing that is reported by linux but i can't find on the MB) is configured as AHCI

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: pata_acpi fails to activate DMA for DVD-ROM on ALi M5229 secondary channel

2007-11-11 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Friday 26 October 2007, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:30:02 +0400 Andrey Borzenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running legacy IDE drivers apparently works in DMA mode for both: Thanks - can you send me an lspci -vvxxx off list BTW in rc2 it does not even boot - it babbles

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: pata_acpi fails to activate DMA for DVD-ROM on ALi M5229 secondary channel

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
BTW in rc2 it does not even boot - it babbles something about Unable to determine IRQ for 00:04.0 (which is IDE controller) and that is the end of story. No IDE device is found. Thats not an IDE breakage I suspect. Various people are reporting IRQ related breakage with -rc2 so you should

Re: [PATCH] cmd64x: don't clear the other channels interrupt

2007-11-11 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday 09 November 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Make sure to not clear the other IDE channel's interrupt when clearing an IDE interrupt via the MRDMODE register. Thanks to Bart for finding a coding mistake. Could you resend with Signed-off-by: and Tested-by: tags? [ A reference to the

Re: linux-ata.org contributions

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: I wouldn't push it out unless it looked OK in my browser. But overall I tend to dislike wikis. They enable collaboration, but tend to be uniformly ugly, cumbersome, and CPU intensive. Besides collaboration, one thing I like about wikis is that updating the page is an

Re: linux-ata.org contributions

2007-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: I wouldn't push it out unless it looked OK in my browser. But overall I tend to dislike wikis. They enable collaboration, but tend to be uniformly ugly, cumbersome, and CPU intensive. Besides collaboration, one thing I like about wikis is that updating

Re: linux-ata.org contributions

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: So, my preference is a wiki. I don't care which wiki it is as long as I can edit and view it directly. So noted, it sounds like a wiki it greatly preferred by all involved. I'll look around for one I like. Expect no action until Nov 16 at the earliest, of course...

Re: only one drive in a port multiplier system is being recognized

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Greg Hennessy wrote: I have a LYCeSATA-4x pci card that is port multiplier compatible (it works fine under win xp) that is only showing one of 5 attached drives when attached to a Redhat 5 computer, with both 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 and 2.6.23.1. The SATA link shows as up for the one recognized

Re: AHCI + ST3160023AS + NCQ problems

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Matheus Izvekov wrote: Indeed removing the jumper of sdb made it be recognised as SATA2. But sdc, what the problem is really about, is neither SATA2, not has any jumper whatsoever. but both the manufacturer and libata claim it supports NCQ. Anything i could do to help debug this? or

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: pata_amd fails to detect 80-pin wire

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Cable detection has always been broken for pata_amd. Recent changes seem to have broken some other subset tho. The following patchset to get it fixed once and for all is pending. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/24524 Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: SATA eating my disk, port reset, destroying unrelated data

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Robert Hancock wrote: Norbert Preining wrote: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40 action 0x2 Serror 0x40 means a handshake error. Usually Serror indications are due to a hardware problem (bad SATA cable, power or drive problem). ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x25) ata1.00: cmd

Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

2007-11-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, I Stratford wrote: The purpose of the mail is to document and share my experience in the hope that someone might find it useful, either for debugging their own TX4 300-centric system issues or figuring out what is up with sata_promise and the TX4 300 in 3Gbps mode. I also wish to offer