From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert de Rooy Subject: Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:06:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4669D2D8.3020806@gmail.com> References: <464A0321.3080201@gmail.com> <464C1575.8070005@gmail.com> <464CB7C9.2080807@gmail.com> <46503192.1040300@gmail.com> <4650B9E3.7070409@gmail.com> <46518798.2020808@gmail.com> <4651B66E.6030505@gmail.com> <4651B834.3060702@gmail.com> <4651C4A1.6000101@gmail.com> <4651C74B.7020108@gmail.com> <46520B36.90409@garzik.org> <20070523150229.00a0c3c4@the-village.bc.nu> <466718B6.4080105@gmail.com> <4667B39D.209@gmail.com> <46685AE5.4010908@gmail.com> <466900F3.7040801@gmail.com> <46694FB2.6040007@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:17451 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968451AbXFHWGX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:06:23 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so1052680ugf for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46694FB2.6040007@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Tejun Heo , Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Mark Lord wrote: > I still don't see much evidence that interrupts are actually > functioning here. > It would be good to see /proc/interrupts before/after libata tries to > talk to it. > > Let's assume for the moment that interrupts are b0rken. > The legacy IDE driver can talk to such devices completely without > interrupts, > if the IDE polling patch (below) is applied. > > So, Robert: could you try again with the old IDE driver, > except apply this patch to it first? This will give valuable info. I tried the patch, but a get a kernel panic on boot with it. I can try to get a screenshot of it tomorrow.