From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yan Seiner Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: sgpio for nvidia mcp55 -v2 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:18:22 -0800 Message-ID: <497936FE.5040809@seiner.com> References: <20061031104055.GA8898@infradead.org> <15F501D1A78BD343BE8F4D8DB854566B0C8DDCF5@hkemmail01.nvidia.com> <86802c440711062009t7e98d27fqdfb466b9843da060@mail.gmail.com> <86802c440901180120u3e60e73dm53a37b7cd9034915@mail.gmail.com> <4972F4E5.3030203@kernel.org> <49768355.4040301@kernel.org> <49773189.6050009@seiner.com> <49776DFB.8090506@kernel.org> <4977FA12.6050103@seiner.com> <4977FF09.50808@kernel.org> <4978AC29.8080308@kernel.org> <49792115.1070803@seiner.com> <4979242D.2010309@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from flatoutfitness.com ([66.178.130.209]:39252 "EHLO www.seiner.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752572AbZAWDSY (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:18:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4979242D.2010309@kernel.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Peer Chen , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Yinghai Lu wrote: > Yan Seiner wrote: > >> To recap, I've applied the latest patch (-v3) that's supposed to make >> the SGPIO work. I am using a LIB-700 backplane from Norco: >> >> http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=75 >> http://www.norco.net.cn/UpLoadFile/Datasheet/DS-600S-EN.pdf >> >> The disk activity LEDs stay lit all the time. >> >> I am running a vanilla kernel, not a debian kernel,. although it was >> built using debian's kbuild. >> >> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.28.1 >> root (hd0,1) >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.1 root=/dev/md0 ro debug >> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28.1 >> >> log files are at >> >> http://seiner.com/sata_nv/syslog >> http://seiner.com/sata_nv/dmesg.log >> > > [ 19.306367] sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APSI] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 > [ 19.306472] sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: Using SWNCQ mode > [ 19.306895] sata_nv 0000:00:05.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ 19.311020] scsi5 : sata_nv > > > it seems that your system HW is not using SGPIO... > my setup has more print out... > selene:/home/www/seiner/html/sata_nv# modinfo sata_nv filename: /lib/modules/2.6.28.1/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_nv.ko version: 3.5 license: GPL description: low-level driver for NVIDIA nForce SATA controller author: NVIDIA srcversion: 4D85D19ABB1359D28F97C6E alias: pci:v000010DEd000003F7sv*sd*bc*sc*i* ... depends: libata vermagic: 2.6.28.1 SMP mod_unload modversions parm: adma:Enable use of ADMA (Default: true) (bool) parm: swncq:Enable use of SWNCQ (Default: true) (bool) Do I have the right version? Should I be seeing a parameter for sgpio? --Yan