Re: ata_piix, laptop cdrom, ICH7: EH, limiting speed to PIO

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Sergey Dolgov pisze:
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:19:03PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>>> Sergey Dolgov pisze:
>>>> Hi Michal,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>>>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/09/2007, Sergey Dolgov <dolgovs@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On my hp nx7300 laptop, 2 following scenarios can happen during bootup
>>>>>> (see attachments for the full logs): the "good" one [1] and the one
>>>>>> where multiple EHs lead to limiting the speed [2].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] one is more rare, but it seems to be persistent over reboots: once
>>>>>> it happened, just rebooting the machine always results in behaviour
>>>>>> like [1].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] results in a working cdrom from the start. An attempt to use cdrom
>>>>>> after [2] happened results in even more EHs, resulting in "configured
>>>>>> for PIO4", after which the cdrom is finaly working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The version I'm using is 2.6.23-rc6, but the same used to happen with
>>>>>> the previous rc's, and probably with 2.6.22 too (I can check).
>>>>> It would be great if you could check it.
>>>> I've just built 2.6.22.6 with basically the same configuration, and
>>>> the behaviour is just the same, i.e. both [1] and [2] still can
>>>> happen.
>>> Ok, thanks.
>>>
>>> BTW please check cables and PCU.
>> What's a PCU?
> 
> s/PCU/PSU - power supply unit
> 
>> BTW, this only happens when using libata of course. The
>> old CONFIG_IDE stuff works fine every time.
> 
> This maybe one of libata weirdness (I really don't get it why some hardware
> works perfectly fine with an old IDE and don't work well with libata).

Hmmm... Is MWDMA2 mode used with ide driver too?

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tejun