linux-ide.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
To: "Reinhard Brandstädter" <r.brandstaedter@gmx.at>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata_via and SATA DVD drive (PX-712SA)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:24:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <444888AE.8000706@tw.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604202020.22010.r.brandstaedter@gmx.at>

Reinhard Brandstädter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since 2.6.12 I try to get a Plextor PX-712SA (SATA DVD-RW) drive to work on a 
> VIA SATA controller. Without success.
> 
> When I load the sata_via module the controller is initialized and two sata 
> interfaces are found (ata4 and ata5).
> Scanning the attached drive fails, and i think the returned code indicates the 
> drive is busy:
> 
> ...
> ata4: command 0xa0 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x61
> ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0xd0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
> ...
> 
> The controller seems to lock up (IDE LED is on) after that.
> I can unload the module and load it again, resulting in a timeout:
> 
> ...
> ata6 is slow to respond, please be patient
> ata6 failed to respond (30 secs)
> ...
> 
> Attached my dmesg output with the messages of loading the module, unloading it 
> and loading it again. (ata4 & ata5 found, then ata6 & ata7)
> 
> I also tried with SCSI debugging but this gives no additional info.
> 

From the dmesg, PX-712SA looks like a PATA drive bridged to SATA.
Could you try the atapi_dmadir=1 module parameter and check if it helps?
(For older kernels, please #define ATAPI_ENABLE_DMADIR
in include/linux/libata.h and recompile the kernel.)
--
albert



  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 18:20 sata_via and SATA DVD drive (PX-712SA) Reinhard Brandstädter
2006-04-21  7:24 ` Albert Lee [this message]
2006-04-21 21:20   ` Reinhard Brandstädter
2006-04-24  9:48     ` Albert Lee
2006-04-24 15:03       ` Reinhard Brandstädter
2006-04-29 10:50       ` Reinhard Brandstädter
2006-04-24 10:22     ` Albert Lee

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=444888AE.8000706@tw.ibm.com \
    --to=albertcc@tw.ibm.com \
    --cc=albertl@mail.com \
    --cc=linux-ide@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=r.brandstaedter@gmx.at \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).