From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: sata_inic162x driver for 2.6.19 timeouts etc Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:38:12 +0900 Message-ID: <4604D564.9010806@gmail.com> References: <20070324064814.38720.qmail@web802.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.251]:9094 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932078AbXCXHiT (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:38:19 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so1681757ana for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:38:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070324064814.38720.qmail@web802.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Stewart Cc: Mark Lord , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Bob Stewart wrote: > I wonder if this card of mine is what's bad. I loaded Sarge 2.4 and the > Sunix driver and a new disk onto my test whore. I got essentially the > same sort of errors as with your driver (see below) but in this case, > abolutely nothing was ever reliable, including the partition table. I'm > not sure I want to buy another card to test this out, though. Maybe > I'll put the card in my other machine just to verify it's not a mobo > issue, though. crapcrapcrap! > > Sample errors: > > drive not ready for command > status timeout: status = 0x80 { busy } > > error = 0x00 { } > dma_intr: status = 0x51 {drive ready SeekComplete error} My bet is on broken driver. sunix driver doesn't seem like it was written carefully. Anyways, thanks for testing. It seems we'll either have to implement adma mode. I'll mark the driver broken for 2.6.21. Thanks. -- tejun