Re: 2.6.19-rc2 - Cable detection problem in pata_amd

Walt H
2006-10-24T22:21:39Z

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 10:08, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Ar Llu, 2006-10-23 am 18:29 -0500, ysgrifennodd Walt H:
>>> On bootup, the pata_amd driver mis-detects the cable connected to the
>>> 2nd port on my system as 40 wire and sets UDMA/33 for this drive. Prior
>> Can you stick it in bugzilla.kernel.org and assign it to me. Also attach
>> an lspci -vxxx. There is a bug or two somewhere in this area still but
>> I'm very busy at the moment with other stuff so don't want your report
>> to go in one ear and out of the other in a couple of days then get
>> forgotten.
>>
> That doesn't seem to happen on an nforce2 board here:
>
> hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
> UDMA(133)
> hda: cache flushes supported
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
> hdb: max request size: 512KiB
> hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> hdb: cache flushes supported
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 >
> hdd: max request size: 512KiB
> hdd: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> hdd: cache flushes supported
> hdd: hdd1 hdd2 hdd3
> hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
>
> So this might be a chipset problem. Post the bugzilla # when its been done
> and I'll add this if its revelent.

Wouldn't surprise me. This is an AMD MP setup with a 762/768 north/south
bridge. I suppose it's getting a bit long in the tooth... No BIOS
updates either...

BTW, bugzilla number is 7411.