Re: 2.6.23-rc9-git4: pata_pcmcia,disabling IRQ #9 and Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 10:14:11 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
O> Mar 20 19:51:45 idefix kernel: ata12: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0xa100 ctl
0xa10e irq 3
Mar 20 19:52:15 idefix kernel: ata12.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91)
Mar 20 19:52:15 idefix kernel: ata12.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4)

Thinkpad T61p .. I've seen a few of these.

Firstly try the card and adapter in a different PC and let me know if
that works. So far they do. If that is the case get the latest firmware
updates (BIOS etc) for your thinkpad and see if the problem goes away.
They (or our ACPI code I guess it may be) have some serious IRQ routing
problems on this box.

Alan

So I tried again just now (on the same T60p running the current Fedora 8), and got different behaviour!

Mar 26 10:06:33 idefix kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Mar 26 10:06:33 idefix kernel: cs: memory probe 0xe4300000-0xe7ffffff: excluding 0xe4300000-0xe46cffff 0xe4e70000-0xe523ffff 0xe5db0000-0xe617ffff 0xe6cf0000-0xe70bffff
Mar 26 10:06:33 idefix kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: scsi11 : pata_pcmcia
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: ata7: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0xa100 ctl 0xa10e irq 3
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: CFA: SanDisk SDCFH-512, FhCA0145, max PIO4
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: 1000944 sectors, multi 0: LBA
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: configured for PIO0
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SanDisk SDCFH-51 FhCA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 1000944 512-byte hardware sectors (512 MB)
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 1000944 512-byte hardware sectors (512 MB)
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Mar 26 10:06:34 idefix kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: sdc:<3>ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: cmd 20/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 pio 4096 in
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: status: { DRDY }
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: ata7: soft resetting link
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: configured for PIO0
Mar 26 10:07:04 idefix kernel: ata7: EH complete
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: cmd 20/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 pio 4096 in
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: status: { DRDY }
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: ata7: soft resetting link
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: ata7.00: configured for PIO0
Mar 26 10:07:34 idefix kernel: ata7: EH complete
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: cmd 20/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 pio 4096 in
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: status: { DRDY }
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: ata7: soft resetting link
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: ata7.00: configured for PIO0
Mar 26 10:08:04 idefix kernel: ata7: EH complete

Any ideas on where this "report" should go?

Peter F. Patel-Schneider

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