From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Port Multiplier Patch 2.6.22.1 on Alpha Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:11:36 +0200 Message-ID: <46E39CA8.3020406@gmail.com> References: <46D638A3.2030704@23palmer.net> <46D64290.2010306@garzik.org> <46E22817.9080200@23palmer.net> <46E30BCA.1070705@gmail.com> <46E37154.9010007@23palmer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:7070 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585AbXIIHNO (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2007 03:13:14 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1127345wah for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:13:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46E37154.9010007@23palmer.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Evans Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tom Evans wrote: > I do not see any console or syslog messages at the time - perhaps I do > not have a debug level set appropriately? Executing dmesg after the event should give you the messages if the kernel has spoken anything. > Also, as an aside, I noticed that the device scan on the remote array > shows this device: > > Sep 8 00:15:12 chronictown kernel: [4194044.507921] ata4.05: ATA-6: > Config Disk, PLS12052, max UDMA/133 > Sep 8 00:15:12 chronictown kernel: [4194044.507921] ata4.05: 640 > sectors, multi 1: LBA > Sep 8 00:15:12 chronictown kernel: [4194044.507921] ata4.05: device is > on DMA blacklist, disabling DMA > Sep 8 00:15:12 chronictown kernel: [4194044.507921] ata4.05: configured > for PIO4 > > > I couldn't find any reference - is this firmware for the PMP or > something like that? That's the pseudo device for configuration. It can be safely ignored unless it causes problems. Thanks. -- tejun