Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

[Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>]

Robert de Rooy wrote:
> (after applying the ide-polling experimental patch)
>
> With this I can declare success!! I was able to read and write to the 
> card without any problems, although I did not try to stress it.
> 
> Jun 12 00:19:42 localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
> Jun 12 00:19:42 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 
> 0xe8000000-0xefffffff: excluding 0xe8000000-0xefffffff
> Jun 12 00:19:42 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 
> 0xc0200000-0xcfffffff: excluding 0xc0200000-0xc11fffff 
> 0xc1a00000-0xc21fffff 0xc2a00000-0xc31fffff 0xc3a00000-0xcc1fffff 
> 0xcca00000-0xcd1fffff 0xcda00000-0xce1fffff 0xcea00000-0xcf1fffff 
> 0xcfa00000-0xd01fffff
> Jun 12 00:19:42 localhost kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
> Jun 12 00:19:42 localhost kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver 
> Revision: 7.00alpha2
> Jun 12 00:19:42 localhost kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed 
> for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost kernel: hda: Memory Card Adapter, CFA DISK drive
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x4100-0x4107,0x410e on irq 3
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost kernel: ide-cs: hda: Vpp = 0.0
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost udevd-event[20730]: udev_rules_apply_format: 
> unknown format variable '$modalias'
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost kernel: hda: 253696 sectors (129 MB) w/1KiB 
> Cache, CHS=991/16/16
> Jun 12 00:19:45 localhost kernel:  hda: hda1
> Jun 12 00:19:48 localhost hald: mounted /dev/hda1 on behalf of uid 0

Okay, Tejun / Bart / Alan:

This proves that the device does work correctly in most respects
except for interrupt delivery.  The status bits are working and
it can be probed for, configured, and used.

So, next step might be to try and understand the interrupt mis-delivery
problem some more.   I've lost the history of the original issue,
but we now know that everything except the actual interrupt seems good.

Cheers
-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox.com