Re: [PATCH] ip_tables.h

2007-04-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On 4/7/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And my "patch" is made obsolete :P Jan Engelhard from the netfilter list made patch set within the patch-o-matic tree. Cheers Jan :D Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] ip_tables.h

2007-04-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On 4/7/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi lads, Oh! And! I don't want to take credit for things I didn't write, which is this exactly. I merely got the ip_tables.h header from 2.6.20 and filtered out what I needed to get things work. So, the actual credit for the code in the

[PATCH] ip_tables.h

2007-04-07 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi lads, I had some problems compiling the external netfilter modules due to missing definitions. I googled a lot, saw a lot of people having the same problems but no real answer to how to fix it. So.. I made a little patch which make things work for me, at least. Modules that work after

[PATCH] ip_tables.h

2007-04-07 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi lads, I had some problems compiling the external netfilter modules due to missing definitions. I googled a lot, saw a lot of people having the same problems but no real answer to how to fix it. So.. I made a little patch which make things work for me, at least. Modules that work after

Re: [PATCH] ip_tables.h

2007-04-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On 4/7/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lads, Oh! And! I don't want to take credit for things I didn't write, which is this exactly. I merely got the ip_tables.h header from 2.6.20 and filtered out what I needed to get things work. So, the actual credit for the code in the patch

Re: [PATCH] ip_tables.h

2007-04-07 Thread Patrick Ale
On 4/7/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And my patch is made obsolete :P Jan Engelhard from the netfilter list made patch set within the patch-o-matic tree. Cheers Jan :D Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: sata_sil problems with recent kernels

2007-03-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/5/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dale Blount wrote: This will probably included in the next -stable iteration. Thanks. -- tejun I can confirm that sata_sil is working great under 2.6.21-rc1. I have an onboard Silicon Image SATA RAID controller and a PCI Add-on card, also

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/5/07, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the confusion :) I saw an email from an Intel guy here on this list a couple of weeks ago if I recall correctly regarding the Interl drivers for this specific card, with a URL, thats why I assumed this was the place to look for.

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/5/07, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the confusion :) I saw an email from an Intel guy here on this list a couple of weeks ago if I recall correctly regarding the Interl drivers for this specific card, with a URL, thats why I assumed this was the place to look for.

Re: sata_sil problems with recent kernels

2007-03-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/5/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale Blount wrote: This will probably included in the next -stable iteration. Thanks. -- tejun I can confirm that sata_sil is working great under 2.6.21-rc1. I have an onboard Silicon Image SATA RAID controller and a PCI Add-on card, also

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the latest kernel drivers, daemon and microcode for my Intel Wireless card. everything built correctly, the microcode is placed in /lib/firmware and when running /etc/init.d/ipw3945d-start I get the following dmesg

[IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I just downloaded the latest kernel drivers, daemon and microcode for my Intel Wireless card. everything built correctly, the microcode is placed in /lib/firmware and when running /etc/init.d/ipw3945d-start I get the following dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211:

[IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I just downloaded the latest kernel drivers, daemon and microcode for my Intel Wireless card. everything built correctly, the microcode is placed in /lib/firmware and when running /etc/init.d/ipw3945d-start I get the following dmesg ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211:

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 3/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the latest kernel drivers, daemon and microcode for my Intel Wireless card. everything built correctly, the microcode is placed in /lib/firmware and when running /etc/init.d/ipw3945d-start I get the following dmesg Extra

Re: [PROBMEL] MD doesn't like /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/26/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ARRAY /dev/md1 UUID=x:x:Xx:x and it should find the right devices and assemble them without problems. That's my point, this is the *only* way working at the moment when using mdadm --assemble , since /dev/disk/by-id* tells me

[PROBMEL] MD doesn't like /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I posted this a while ago aswell :) MD can't start anymore when /etc/mdadm.conf uses /dev/disk/by-id/* , it bluntly tells you there are no suiteable drives. Since libata tends to mangle my drive order by every reboot since I use 3 controllers and the drivers dont generate uevents always in

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/24/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One more question regarding this, I am aware its not *really* kernel related but answering this question now will save yourself a lot of bogus emails from me about MD

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/24/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more question regarding this, I am aware its not *really* kernel related but answering this question now will save yourself a lot of bogus emails from me about MD oopses later and all

[PROBMEL] MD doesn't like /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, I posted this a while ago aswell :) MD can't start anymore when /etc/mdadm.conf uses /dev/disk/by-id/* , it bluntly tells you there are no suiteable drives. Since libata tends to mangle my drive order by every reboot since I use 3 controllers and the drivers dont generate uevents always in

Re: [PROBMEL] MD doesn't like /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/26/07, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ARRAY /dev/md1 UUID=x:x:Xx:x and it should find the right devices and assemble them without problems. That's my point, this is the *only* way working at the moment when using mdadm --assemble , since /dev/disk/by-id* tells me

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But using 'fakeraid' (i.e. BIOS RAID) together with dmraid is generally discouraged in favour of using the more stable and well supported Linux Software RAID functionality. Michael-Luke I think I actually used dmraid, and the problem I

[QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Ale
, the raid is done in the driver, which is why you need this fancy boot disk before installing Windows on your RAID set. Or would you suggest me to stick with MD devices? Cheers, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] "kun kasvan isoksi, halun olla poro" - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

[QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Ale
is done in the driver, which is why you need this fancy boot disk before installing Windows on your RAID set. Or would you suggest me to stick with MD devices? Cheers, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] kun kasvan isoksi, halun olla poro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But using 'fakeraid' (i.e. BIOS RAID) together with dmraid is generally discouraged in favour of using the more stable and well supported Linux Software RAID functionality. Michael-Luke I think I actually used dmraid, and the problem I

[UMTS/HSDPA] Kernel module

2007-02-23 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi All! For my work I am using a Huawei E620 HSDPA/UMTS card, and I would like to use it under Linux :) Before this I had a card with only UMTS/GPRS functions and as soon as I inserted the card some /dev/ttyUSB nodes were created, with this card this doesnt happen, eventho the different fora

[UMTS/HSDPA] Kernel module

2007-02-23 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi All! For my work I am using a Huawei E620 HSDPA/UMTS card, and I would like to use it under Linux :) Before this I had a card with only UMTS/GPRS functions and as soon as I inserted the card some /dev/ttyUSB nodes were created, with this card this doesnt happen, eventho the different fora

Re: [SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/22/07, Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, hey all, using 2.6.21-rc1 now, all seems to work great, thanks! patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/22/07, Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I dont think there is one or that this reply of yours could cause it :P Just to add my $0.02 on this point : this could also be one of the problem I'm facing on my machine right now, but the point is that Windows supports it

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/22/07, Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, please no flame war I dont think there is one or that this reply of yours could cause it :P Just to add my $0.02 on this point : this could also be one of the problem I'm facing on my machine right now, but the point is that

Re: [SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-22 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/22/07, Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, hey all, using 2.6.21-rc1 now, all seems to work great, thanks! patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, And now, for something completely different, no libata ;-) I was wondering if any of you ever got the sky2 driver working (gigabit network card found in most Siemens E laptops). Which kernel I am trying, 2.6.17-gentoo (the kernel on the install CD), 2.6.20, the latest gits, nothing works.

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/21/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/21/07, Vincent Legoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the latter case it might explain why you see one master connected to one bus and a slave to the other. If you use legacy SATA mode you should just see drive 0 and d

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/21/07, Vincent Legoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Argh I think I screwed the mail threading, I was refering to: http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.1/1060.html From: Patrick Ale Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 05:28:21 EST Sorry Yea, I know.. I mail too much.. too much time at

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/21/07, Vincent Legoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh I think I screwed the mail threading, I was refering to: http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.1/1060.html From: Patrick Ale Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 05:28:21 EST Sorry Yea, I know.. I mail too much.. too much time at hands

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/21/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/21/07, Vincent Legoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the latter case it might explain why you see one master connected to one bus and a slave to the other. If you use legacy SATA mode you should just see drive 0 and drive 1. Oh

[SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, And now, for something completely different, no libata ;-) I was wondering if any of you ever got the sky2 driver working (gigabit network card found in most Siemens E laptops). Which kernel I am trying, 2.6.17-gentoo (the kernel on the install CD), 2.6.20, the latest gits, nothing works.

Re: [PROBLEM] compiling latest linus-upstream

2007-02-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/18/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I just tried to compile Torvald's upstream-linus and ran into a compile error. Disregard, I ran make oldconfig again, didnt get prompted for any configuration options, and now it does compile. Patrick - To unsubscribe from thi

[PROBLEM] compiling latest linus-upstream

2007-02-18 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi all, I just tried to compile Torvald's upstream-linus and ran into a compile error. CC arch/i386/kernel/time.o In file included from include/asm-i386/mach-default/do_timer.h:5, from arch/i386/kernel/time.c:75: include/asm/i8253.h: In function `pit_interrupt_hook':

[PROBLEM] compiling latest linus-upstream

2007-02-18 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi all, I just tried to compile Torvald's upstream-linus and ran into a compile error. CC arch/i386/kernel/time.o In file included from include/asm-i386/mach-default/do_timer.h:5, from arch/i386/kernel/time.c:75: include/asm/i8253.h: In function `pit_interrupt_hook':

Re: [PROBLEM] compiling latest linus-upstream

2007-02-18 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/18/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just tried to compile Torvald's upstream-linus and ran into a compile error. Disregard, I ran make oldconfig again, didnt get prompted for any configuration options, and now it does compile. Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list

[QUESTION]

2007-02-17 Thread Patrick Ale
Allrighy, Since somebody up there hates me and passed me a cool fever with a body temperature of 39C I'll stay in bed, of course. But I wouldnt be me if I would be stopped by some inferior fever this weekend. So I am going to install my HP Pavilion dv8373 laptop with Linux. Two SATA disks

[QUESTION]

2007-02-17 Thread Patrick Ale
Allrighy, Since somebody up there hates me and passed me a cool fever with a body temperature of 39C I'll stay in bed, of course. But I wouldnt be me if I would be stopped by some inferior fever this weekend. So I am going to install my HP Pavilion dv8373 laptop with Linux. Two SATA disks

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Ioan Ionita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All clear now? Yes sir, sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah and about the libsata/libata thingy, it is libata of course :) libsata I will test later on, so be prepared allready for more ranting for me. I even bought a cool sata controller with sata disk so I can mess around :D Patrick - To

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I appreciate the testing. One interesting but tedious test would be suspend tests (both to disk and ram). Most libata drivers using new EH should be ready for them. Oh, well, there's should and there's reality. I will do these tests when I

Re: [LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good morning all, Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and since i see all my other

[LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, Yesterday I replaced a Sil680 PCI add-on card for a Promise 2027x PCI add-on card. Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and

[LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, Yesterday I replaced a Sil680 PCI add-on card for a Promise 2027x PCI add-on card. Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and

Re: [LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning all, Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and since i see all my other disks

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate the testing. One interesting but tedious test would be suspend tests (both to disk and ram). Most libata drivers using new EH should be ready for them. Oh, well, there's should and there's reality. I will do these tests when I am

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah and about the libsata/libata thingy, it is libata of course :) libsata I will test later on, so be prepared allready for more ranting for me. I even bought a cool sata controller with sata disk so I can mess around :D Patrick - To

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Ioan Ionita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All clear now? Yes sir, sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: xfs internal error on a new filesystem

2007-02-14 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/14/07, Ramy M. Hassan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, We got the following xfs internal error on one of our production servers: Hi, I want firstly to make a disclaimer that I am not an XFS or kernel guru, what I am writing now is purely my experience, since I use XFS on all my machines,

Re: xfs internal error on a new filesystem

2007-02-14 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/14/07, Ramy M. Hassan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We got the following xfs internal error on one of our production servers: Hi, I want firstly to make a disclaimer that I am not an XFS or kernel guru, what I am writing now is purely my experience, since I use XFS on all my machines,

Re: [PROBLEM] Can't start MD devices by using /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
> Just out of curiosity, why did you do this in such a manual way instead of just using the UUID? I would think every time you replace a failed drive you would have to go edit the files all over again. Oh, there is a very simple reason for that. These md arrays exist for a year of three

[PROBLEM] Can't start MD devices by using /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi chaps, I just came home, rebooted my box to git8 and *gasp* a problem :) I can't start my MD devices anymore by defining /dev/disk/by-id/* devices in /etc/mdadm.conf. When I do a: mdadm --assemble /dev/md/1 it tells me "No devices found for /dev/md/1" When I edit the file /etc/mdadm.conf

Re: [LIBATA] Libata under Qemu

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/13/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /That/ sounds like a qemu bug. Allright, I will make sure tonight by testing it on a native PIIX mainboard without anything connected to the second PATA controller :) I thought for a second it was a similar "abnorma statel" error I got

Re: [LIBATA] Libata under Qemu

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/13/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Little errata, I only pulled Jeff's GIT at 15:00GMT , Linus' GIT was from two days ago. I just pulled linux-2.6-git8, same behaviour tho, it complains when nothing is attached to the second channel. Patrick - To unsubscrib

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
authentication, yadayada). I didnt have time yet to install Linux on my HP Pavilion dv8373 and on my Dual P2 400Mhz with Intel 440BX motherboard, but I hope to do this soon. Have a joyfull day and i hope you have better weather than we have here in Amsterdam. Patrick Ale Not even the best coder

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
authentication, yadayada). I didnt have time yet to install Linux on my HP Pavilion dv8373 and on my Dual P2 400Mhz with Intel 440BX motherboard, but I hope to do this soon. Have a joyfull day and i hope you have better weather than we have here in Amsterdam. Patrick Ale Not even the best coder

Re: [LIBATA] Libata under Qemu

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/13/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Little errata, I only pulled Jeff's GIT at 15:00GMT , Linus' GIT was from two days ago. I just pulled linux-2.6-git8, same behaviour tho, it complains when nothing is attached to the second channel. Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [LIBATA] Libata under Qemu

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/13/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /That/ sounds like a qemu bug. Allright, I will make sure tonight by testing it on a native PIIX mainboard without anything connected to the second PATA controller :) I thought for a second it was a similar abnorma statel error I got earlier

[PROBLEM] Can't start MD devices by using /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi chaps, I just came home, rebooted my box to git8 and *gasp* a problem :) I can't start my MD devices anymore by defining /dev/disk/by-id/* devices in /etc/mdadm.conf. When I do a: mdadm --assemble /dev/md/1 it tells me No devices found for /dev/md/1 When I edit the file /etc/mdadm.conf and

Re: [PROBLEM] Can't start MD devices by using /dev/disk/by-id

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Ale
Just out of curiosity, why did you do this in such a manual way instead of just using the UUID? I would think every time you replace a failed drive you would have to go edit the files all over again. Oh, there is a very simple reason for that. These md arrays exist for a year of three

Re: [QUESTION] Which dependency am I missing?

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/12/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, Disregard, I found the problem. CONFIG_NEW_LED=Y , so I have to do a make and boot from the produced image. Which brings me to another question. If a dependent driver is selected as module (for reasons you dont want to

[QUESTION] Which dependency am I missing?

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi folks, I am looking for a half day now and I can't find the dependency for NEW_LED I am missing. Can anyone point me to what I am missing? 80211: Unknown symbol led_trigger_unregister 80211: Unknown symbol led_trigger_register 80211: Unknown symbol led_trigger_event 80211: Unknown symbol

[QUESTION] Which dependency am I missing?

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi folks, I am looking for a half day now and I can't find the dependency for NEW_LED I am missing. Can anyone point me to what I am missing? 80211: Unknown symbol led_trigger_unregister 80211: Unknown symbol led_trigger_register 80211: Unknown symbol led_trigger_event 80211: Unknown symbol

Re: [QUESTION] Which dependency am I missing?

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/12/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Disregard, I found the problem. CONFIG_NEW_LED=Y , so I have to do a make and boot from the produced image. Which brings me to another question. If a dependent driver is selected as module (for reasons you dont want to reboot and all

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/11/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > Then in that case you should set the remaining drive as master. That's > just the way PATA is. A lot of BIOSes won't even detect a drive that's > set as slave with no master present.

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: > On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Patrick Ale wrote: Then in that case you should set the remaining drive as master. That's just the way PATA is. A lot of BIOSes won't even dete

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: > Something unrelated to the tests I am doing. > > I found out that the libsata driver doesn't really cope or likes the > idea that you might have a controller without a master drive > configured. >

libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, Something unrelated to the tests I am doing. I found out that the libsata driver doesn't really cope or likes the idea that you might have a controller without a master drive configured. In this case on ATA2 I have a CDROM drive, connected as slave. ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x177

libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, Something unrelated to the tests I am doing. I found out that the libsata driver doesn't really cope or likes the idea that you might have a controller without a master drive configured. In this case on ATA2 I have a CDROM drive, connected as slave. ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x177

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: Something unrelated to the tests I am doing. I found out that the libsata driver doesn't really cope or likes the idea that you might have a controller without a master drive configured. In this case on ATA2 I have

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: Then in that case you should set the remaining drive as master. That's just the way PATA is. A lot of BIOSes won't even detect a drive that's set

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-11 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/11/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Then in that case you should set the remaining drive as master. That's just the way PATA is. A lot of BIOSes won't even detect a drive that's set as slave with no master present.

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now, a cool Siemens/Fujitsu laptop (named elisabeth) with ICH7 ATA chipset and controller. Currently the ATA controller is in "SATA" mode (ICH7 chipsets allow you to run in native SATA mode or compatible mode, for

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/10/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right umm "Your honor the gentleman is human, this is not acceptable" ? Human and a looney who wishes Monty Python's Flying Circus still existed so he could be a main character and having a great excuse to act weird. Beating the crap out of it

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/10/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, What are the libsata tests and where are they, please? No where, I just compile the drivers, see if my system boots up and then I run some I/O intensive stuff, like bonnie++, emerge -e world at the same time. So you are testing libata

libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, And now for something completely different. I started the libsata tests on one of the four machines I'll be doing these tests on. At the moment I'm testing on 'lilith', which is my multi-harddisk server and playground. At the moment I am hammering /dev/sda5, which is an ext4dev partition

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
And again, for something completely different. I am hammering my second machine now, a cool Siemens/Fujitsu laptop (named elisabeth) with ICH7 ATA chipset and controller. Currently the ATA controller is in SATA mode (ICH7 chipsets allow you to run in native SATA mode or compatible mode, for the

libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, And now for something completely different. I started the libsata tests on one of the four machines I'll be doing these tests on. At the moment I'm testing on 'lilith', which is my multi-harddisk server and playground. At the moment I am hammering /dev/sda5, which is an ext4dev partition

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/10/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What are the libsata tests and where are they, please? No where, I just compile the drivers, see if my system boots up and then I run some I/O intensive stuff, like bonnie++, emerge -e world at the same time. So you are testing libata

Re: libsata tests started

2007-02-10 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/10/07, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right umm Your honor the gentleman is human, this is not acceptable ? Human and a looney who wishes Monty Python's Flying Circus still existed so he could be a main character and having a great excuse to act weird. Beating the crap out of it using

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-07 Thread Patrick Ale
Do you know if these drives were advertising less capability than they were spec-ed at? Do you recall if the IDE driver without kernel arguments printed its rationale for reverting to the slower setting? I can only speak for myself of course. On boot time the libsata driver detected my

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-07 Thread Patrick Ale
Do you know if these drives were advertising less capability than they were spec-ed at? Do you recall if the IDE driver without kernel arguments printed its rationale for reverting to the slower setting? I can only speak for myself of course. On boot time the libsata driver detected my

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
\ Userspace PIO mode changes are NOT a good idea, and I doubt that libata would want to support that feature. The "-d" flag (enable/disable DMA) is currently not implemented by libata, though there may be a /sys/.. attribute for it (?). Okay but... the driver itself does implement the calls,

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/5/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: The southbridge usually runs the PCI bus connected to the slots, so it's possible that PCI bus issues were causing problems.. Explains a lot then yeah... okay, if the error occures again I will let you know, I am b

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, It is working since I enabled this ATA_PIIX driver. :) Appearantly "old" has nothing to do with the age of the mainboard and it's capabilities. an UDMA33 board works with the "new" driver even :) Thanks a lot, next beer/slivovica/palinka is on me :) Patrick - To unsubscribe from this

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, About the reason as of why it drops to PIO mode, I might have found the reason for this, I am just not sure if what i found is related. When I opened my Athlon XP machine, took the cables out and replaced them for new cables, I found out that my southbridge fan wasnt spinning

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, About the reason as of why it drops to PIO mode, I might have found the reason for this, I am just not sure if what i found is related. When I opened my Athlon XP machine, took the cables out and replaced them for new cables, I found out that my southbridge fan wasnt spinning

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, It is working since I enabled this ATA_PIIX driver. :) Appearantly old has nothing to do with the age of the mainboard and it's capabilities. an UDMA33 board works with the new driver even :) Thanks a lot, next beer/slivovica/palinka is on me :) Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/5/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Ale wrote: The southbridge usually runs the PCI bus connected to the slots, so it's possible that PCI bus issues were causing problems.. Explains a lot then yeah... okay, if the error occures again I will let you know, I am booting up

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Ale
\ Userspace PIO mode changes are NOT a good idea, and I doubt that libata would want to support that feature. The -d flag (enable/disable DMA) is currently not implemented by libata, though there may be a /sys/.. attribute for it (?). Okay but... the driver itself does implement the calls,

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
It's working, thanks :) I was confused by this ATA_PIIX driver needing to be enabled, I genuinly thought and read it was the SATA driver. Thanks :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \ > OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not > cover the later chips at all Just to make sure, this is a P2 SMP board, Slot A, doesnt eve

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: \ OLDPIIX is for "old" PIIX devices only - from pentium era. It does not cover the later chips at all Well, neither driver works, as you can see in my config I have the "OLD" driver and the "new" driver, neither driver makes my controller being

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amm, not to sound like a wise guy but... CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is the SATA driver, not the PATA driver.. atleast that is what menuconfig tells me when I select "Help" when I look at the config options - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PATA_OLDPIIX drives the PIIX (the original not PIIX3,4, etc) People do find that confusing so if there is any rewording for Configure.help that would have made it easier and more obvious let me know Okay so.. what do I define now to use libsata

Re: More pata_ stuff

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/4/07, Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which for a PIIX4 chipset is what you want. Somewhat confusingly: CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX=y Should be "n", I've been told. What? No, this cant be. CONFIG_PATA_OLDPIIX is supposed to be the libsata version for the

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