Re: I need a hardware wizard... I have been beating my head on the wall..

David Sims
2005-01-29T01:14:24Z

Hi Paulo!

Your patch generated the following:

Jan 28 19:11:51 linux kernel: vsc_sata int status: 00000083
Jan 28 19:11:51 linux last message repeated 19 times
Jan 28 19:11:51 linux kernel: irq 7: nobody cared!
Jan 28 19:11:51 linux kernel: [<c0128972>] __report_bad_irq+0x22/0x90
Jan 28 19:11:51 linux kernel: [<c0128a68>] note_interrupt+0x58/0x90
Jan 28 19:11:51 linux kernel: [<c01285f8>] __do_IRQ+0xd8/0xe0
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Thanks for helping me... I hope this is useful info....

Dave Sims
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:

> David Sims wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>David Sims wrote:
> >>
> >>>[...]
> >>> You can insert the module in a running kernel and after barking as
> >>>follows (once for each disk attached) it runs just fine.
> >>
> >>Basically nobody has ever had hardware to test sata_vsc with that
> >>hardware. We should probably remove the PCI ID until an engineer can
> >>fix it...
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I am willing to make this hardware available to any engineer that wants
> > to help me solve this problem.... and I will do whatever I can to make it
> > an easy job... Please help me...
>
> Well, I don't consider myself a hardware wizard, but at least I'm an
> engineer, so I decided to give it a go :)
>
> It seems that the driver is not acknowledging the interrupt from the
> controller. It would be nice to know what kind of interrupt is
> triggering this.
>
> Could you run the attached patch and show the output from dmesg?
>
> --
> Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
>
> All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
> Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
>