Hi,
my 486 box with Holtek HT6560A ide vlb controller works only with 2.2
kernel with Andre Hedrick's patches - I tested 2.2.15 and 2.2.17pre4
and both work fine.
But 2.2.17pre4, 2.2.12 (Redhat), 2.3.99pre6, 2.4.0-test2 ends with
the same error during reading partition table:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hda: WDC AC24300L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 8421840 sectors (4312 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=557/240/63
hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=833/240/63
Partition check:
hda:hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
hda: drive not ready for command
unable to read partition table
hdb:hdb: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hdb: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hdb: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
hdb: drive not ready for command
unable to read partition table
(the same behavior both with and without ide0=ht6560b)
With Andre's patches both disks works fine, but there is another
problem, false "ports already in use":
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hda: WDC AC24300L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide3: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide4: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide5: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: WDC AC24300L, 4112MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=557/240/63
hdb: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=833/240/63
.... other devices initialization
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
hda: [PTBL] [524/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: [PTBL] [784/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
For completeness, this is clean 2.2.17pre4 kernel:
hda: WDC AC24300L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: WDC AC24300L, 4112MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=557/240/63
hdb: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=833/240/63
.....
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
hda:hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hda: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
hda: drive not ready for command
unable to read partition table
hdb:hdb: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hdb: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff
hdb: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
hdb: drive not ready for command
unable to read partition table
It seems the wrong behavior was fixed in ide-2.2..... patches, but
not in both 2.2. and 2.4 mainstream kernel.
Best Regards,
Petr Soucek
Ryston Electronics s.r.o
petr@ryston.cz http://www.ryston.cz/
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