Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

2007-09-06 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 06/09/07, Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:37:22 +0100 Daniel J Blueman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs.

Re: [PATCH 5/13] ide: add IDE_HFLAG_ERROR_STOPS_FIFO host flag

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Add IDE_HFLAG_ERROR_STOPS_FIFO host flag and use it instead of hwif-err_stops_fifo. As a side-effect this change fixes hwif-err_stops_fifo not being restored by ide_hwif_restore(). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-09-06 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:08:00AM -0700, Petr Vandrovec wrote: 3124-2 (norco 4618): NCQ: 1TB alone: 82.30, 82.43 1TB+1TB: 68.36+68.25 noNCQ: 1TB alone: 82.39, 82.29 1TB+1TB: 70.33+70.32, 69.47+70.01 Unfortunately that enclosure has only two slots used. I'll

Re: [sata_nv] timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440

2007-09-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 5 2007 09:48, Andrew Morton wrote: On 8/28/07, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 25 2007 15:37, Maarten Maathuis wrote: A broken cable seems like a realistic possibility, so i swapped it for another cable. I will try if that solves the problem. Hi, did you have

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-06 Thread Bryan Woods
Tejun Heo wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, [Adding linux-ide to CC] On 25/08/07, Bryan Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi KML I am installing gentoo 2007.0 (kernel 2.6.19) on a dual AMD Opteron server (total of 4 cores). The hard disk is a Stardom 2611-2S-S1 device: actually two

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-09-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, greg wrote: dean gaudet dean at arctic.org writes: if you've got any other workload you'd like me to throw at it, let me know. I've had a few problems with the driver in 2.6.20 (fc6xen x86_64). The machine tended to lock up after a random period of time (from a

Re: CF as IDE on ICH6M using libata

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Eddie Hung wrote: However, I think we can conclude that ICH6M (which on the X41, has a SATA-PATA bridge to connect a PATA drive) does not seem to support MWDMA It isn't clear whether the fault is at the driver or the CF device. (especially as it is not completely supported under Windows

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Petr Vandrovec wrote: Concurrent hdparm -t, like hdparm -t /dev/sdd hdparm -t /dev/sde hdparm -t /dev/sdf hdparm -t /dev/sdg sleep 20 (and from hdparm output visually confirmed that all activity LEDs go on off simultaneously) Not sure whether it matters but 'hdparm' tests are

[PATCH] Asynchronous scan support for libata

2007-09-06 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Last December, I posted this: http://lwn.net/Articles/213635/ Here's an updated version. It shaves 5 seconds off boot time on my configuration (qla2xxx, emulex, two ata_piix, dual fusion), but could save more or less on other setups. I think I can remove the 'sync' argument and code from

Re: CF as IDE on ICH6M using libata

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
[adding-back linux-ide, please don't drop cc's] Eddie Hung wrote: On 06/09/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eddie Hung wrote: However, I think we can conclude that ICH6M (which on the X41, has a SATA-PATA bridge to connect a PATA drive) does not seem to support MWDMA It isn't clear

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Bryan Woods wrote: The full dmesg and hdparm -I command output are attached. I have received word from the vendor that the Stardom 2611 will do RAID0 or 1 under windows, but only RAID1 under Linux. (Their manual said it worked with Linux but failed to mention the RAID mode restriction:

Re: HSM violation spew.

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Dave Jones wrote: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD3200AAJS-0 12.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 This could have been truncated, please post the result of 'hdparm -I /dev/sda'. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add a drivers/ide style DMA disable

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: This is useful when debugging, handling problem systems, or for distributions just to get the system installed so it can be sorted out later. This is a bit smarter than the old IDE one and lets you do libata.pata_dma=0 Disable all PATA DMA like old IDE

Re: ATA_PIIX - soft resetting port, port is slow to respond, machine freezes for a few seconds

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Joris schrieb: Btw, out on a limb here: my board has specific combinations of sata port usage leading to a reset. Avoiding to use sata0 (sda) (unplug the cable) works perfectly. Do you have the same symptoms? No idea, no SATA here. Joris, can you please post more

Re: ATA_PIIX - soft resetting port, port is slow to respond, machine freezes for a few seconds

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Joris schrieb: Hello Tomasz, This appears remarkably simelar to what I'm experiencing, altough I'm getting that on sata ports. I'm currently at a loss on what caused this, but if there's two of us... ;-) See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-idem=118812690407577w=2

[PATCH] Remove sync waiting code from libata

2007-09-06 Thread Matthew Wilcox
By using the scsi async probing code, we can remove the 'sync' argument from ata_scsi_scan_host(): diff -u b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c --- b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -6362,10 +6362,15 @@ } } +/* + * Give ourselves ten

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Mark Lord wrote: I reported a very similar bug back a few releases ago. Anyone who wants to try it themselves, can do this with hdparm-7.7 (from sourceforge): hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda Whether or not it hangs the machine does depend upon exactly which SATA LLD is used,

Re: Bug#419482: Kernel 2.6.18 - ALI15X3 driver too optmistic about UDMA

2007-09-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi, I reported this problem initially to the Debian BTS back in April, but I've not had a chance to follow up on it since - the moment I got the system up and running again, it needed to keep running as a build daemon for us. Now I've got some downtime to allow me to delve further... On the cats