Promise module (old) broken

Promise module (old) broken

[lkml]

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  Hi,

  up to the actual kernel rc 2.6.10rc3 has broken pdc 20265 support. As
some kernel releases ago, one had to specify i/o ports on kernel
cmdline. 2.4.28 kernel works w/o cmdline parameter.

Is this behaviour intended? Will it be fixed in 2.6.10 release?

W/o parameter kernel (2.6) does not recognise the pdc ide controller
drives.
dmesg output states: "ideX: Wait for ready failed before probe !"


As of kernel rc 2.6.10rc1 the kernel even reported ide drive short
read and seek errors on drives even not connected to the pdc
controller but connected to the onboard controller (->/dev/hda1). In
fact /dev/hda1 has no errors (so far).

Any comments?

  Thanks.

    Nils


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Re: Promise module (old) broken

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:54:00 +0100, lkml@think-future.de
<lkml@think-future.de> wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   up to the actual kernel rc 2.6.10rc3 has broken pdc 20265 support. As
> some kernel releases ago, one had to specify i/o ports on kernel
> cmdline. 2.4.28 kernel works w/o cmdline parameter.
> 
> Is this behaviour intended? Will it be fixed in 2.6.10 release?

Haven't you forgot to compile in pdc202xx_old driver?

> W/o parameter kernel (2.6) does not recognise the pdc ide controller
> drives.
> dmesg output states: "ideX: Wait for ready failed before probe !"
> 
> As of kernel rc 2.6.10rc1 the kernel even reported ide drive short
> read and seek errors on drives even not connected to the pdc
> controller but connected to the onboard controller (->/dev/hda1). In
> fact /dev/hda1 has no errors (so far).
>
> Any comments?

Read REPORTING-BUGS from the kernel source package
and give us at least dmesgs and configs.

Re: Promise module (old) broken

[Alan Pope]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:54:00 +0100, lkml@think-future.de
<lkml@think-future.de> wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   up to the actual kernel rc 2.6.10rc3 has broken pdc 20265 support. As
> some kernel releases ago, one had to specify i/o ports on kernel
> cmdline. 2.4.28 kernel works w/o cmdline parameter.
> 
> Is this behaviour intended? Will it be fixed in 2.6.10 release?
> 
> W/o parameter kernel (2.6) does not recognise the pdc ide controller
> drives.
> dmesg output states: "ideX: Wait for ready failed before probe !"
> 
> As of kernel rc 2.6.10rc1 the kernel even reported ide drive short
> read and seek errors on drives even not connected to the pdc
> controller but connected to the onboard controller (->/dev/hda1). In
> fact /dev/hda1 has no errors (so far).
> 
> Any comments?
> 

It's more broken than that here. I get the following errors in 2.6.8
through 2.6.9-ac9 & 2.6.10-rc2 with the old (PDC202XX_OLD) promise
driver, when placing the disk/controller under any load (in fact just
doing hdparm -t -T /dev/hde).

I get..

hde: dma_intr: status=0xff { Busy }

ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hde: DMA disabled
PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.

(a number of times)

ide2: reset timed-out, status=0xff
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 11776
Buffer I/O error on device hde, logical block 1472

(many times)

Cheers,
Al.

Re: Promise module (old) broken

[lkml]

        Hi,

> Haven't you forgot to compile in pdc202xx_old driver?
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD=y

> and give us at least dmesgs and configs.
This is the same machine and config as in the thread "".


        Nils

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Re: Promise module (old) broken

[lkml]

        Hi,

sorry..

Same config as in "ethX interface rx errors"

Nils