Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Alan Cox wrote:

>>>>scsi0 : pata_ali
>>>>PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
>>>>ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100   <========
>>>>drive can do 100
>>>>ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA
>>>>ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33    <=============== configured as 33
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>>>>
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>How is this system actually set up - what cable is used on that drive ?
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>>>>ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
>>>>ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in
>>>>         res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>>>>ata2: soft resetting port
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>>>>
>>It looks like interrupts are not being delivered?
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>We still have a problem with pata_ali and ATAPI. I'm still trying to work
>out wtf is going on there as I can't find any meaningful difference and
>even some paranoid 'assume the worst of the comments in the databook'
>additional code isn't helping.
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Hi,

This is a laptop with both the cd and hardrive connected directly to the 
mainboard. The key is
they both work correctly under 2.6.20.

HTH,
Steve

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