2.6.24-rc6: ricoh_mmc woes

From: Harald Dunkel
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 15:29:19 EST


Hi folks,

I've got a problem with a Ricoh mmc reader. As soon as I insert a
sd card I get tons of I/O errors. syslog says:

Jan 5 21:19:12 daffy kernel: ricoh-mmc: Ricoh MMC Controller disabling driver
Jan 5 21:19:12 daffy kernel: ricoh-mmc: Copyright(c) Philip Langdale
Jan 5 21:19:12 daffy kernel: ricoh-mmc: Ricoh MMC controller found at 0000:03:01.2 [1180:0843] (rev 12)
Jan 5 21:19:12 daffy kernel: ricoh-mmc: Controller is now disabled.
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: mmc0: new high speed SD card at address 1234
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SD01G 995328KiB
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: mmcblk0:<3>mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: printk: 32 messages suppressed.
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0
Jan 5 21:19:25 daffy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 0
Jan 5 21:19:26 daffy kernel: mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data
Jan 5 21:19:26 daffy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0
Jan 5 21:19:26 daffy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0, logical block 0
Jan 5 21:19:26 daffy kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
Jan 5 21:19:26 daffy kernel: mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data
Jan 5 21:19:26 daffy kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 0
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The ricoh_mmc disabler module is installed as a module. udev loads it
at boot time. But AFAICS I get the same errors if ricoh_mmc is removed.


lspci says

# lspci | grep -i ricoh
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 (rev 05)
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
# lspci -n | grep 03:01
03:01.0 0c00: 1180:0832 (rev 05)
03:01.1 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 22)
03:01.2 0880: 1180:0843 (rev 12)
03:01.3 0880: 1180:0592 (rev 12)
03:01.4 0880: 1180:0852 (rev ff)


Of course the SD card works fine in another PC.

Any idea how to track this down? Please mail


Regards

Harri

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