Re: siimage driver status

Re: siimage driver status

[Rob Browning]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) writes:
> On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 15:32, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> > hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The
> > problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel reports
> > this on bootup:
>
> I'm running the siimage driver fine with several drives. Your setup
> is intriguing in that the BIOS has chosen to leave the drives in PIO
> mode

As an extra datapoint I have very a very similar problem with a WD360
drive and an siimage 3112 PCI controller on a shuttle (via-based)
AK31V2.0 motherboard.

The sii3112 interfaces show up as ide0 and ide1 (can that be changed?)
using MMIO-DMA/pio.  Testing the drive as-is results in ~3.5MB/s
transfer rates (via hdparm -t), and attempting to enable DMA via
"hdparm -d 1" results in an immediate lockup the next time the drive
is accessed.

When I get another chance, I'll probably try the two fixes others in
this thread have suggested:

  hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hda

and if that still has trouble under load, someone suggested:

  echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/ide/hda/settings

Hope this helps.

(I'm not on the list right now, so please cc any replies you want to
 make sure I see -- thanks.)

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Re: siimage driver status

[Inigo Surguy]

From: lk@trolloc.com (lk@trolloc.com)
> I reinstalled my SiImage controller this morning because I hadn't
> documented using the -X66 switch during my previous testing.  It actually
> makes a bit of a difference- the DMA enables and THEN the machine locks
> hard when any reasonable amount of data is written to the drives on the
> controller.
> 
> I get two console messages before the machine locks hard:
> hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x22
> hde: dma_timer_expiry status = 0xd8 { Busy }
> 

I have the same problem - I have an Asus A7N8X using the SiI3112A, with a
Seagate Barracuda SATA ST380023AS. It comes up (and works, but very slowly)
in pio.

When I enable DMA with hdparm -d1 /dev/hde, or hdparm -Xudma2 -d1,
then I get the dma_timer_expiry messages above, and then a hard lock.

When I enable DMA with hdparm -Xudma6 -d1, or hdparm -Xudma5 -d1, then the
DMA enables, I can hdparm -t to see that transfer rate is much better (25x)
than before, but as soon as I write to the drive I get the dma_timer_expiry
messages above. 

(Dual-boot Windows XP is using UDMA6 for this drive)

There's similar behaviour under 2.4.20, 2.4.21rc5ac2 and 2.4.21rc6.

Inigo

---

/var/log/messages

May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: NFORCE2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: AMD_IDE: PCI device 10de:0065 (nVidia Corporation) (rev a2) UDMA100 controller on pci00:09.0
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel:     ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel:     ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
May 29 19:53:22 localhost autofs: automount startup succeeded
May 29 19:53:22 localhost automount[1145]: starting automounter version 3.1.7, path = /automount/cabbit, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.cabbit
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-104S 020, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: hdd: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: blk: queue c033b030, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: hde: ST380023AS, ATA DISK drive
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
May 29 19:53:22 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xf880d080-0xf880d087,0xf880d08a on irq 11

---

hdparm -i /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
 
 Model=ST380023AS, FwRev=3.01, SerialNo=3KB18AAX
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2:  1 2 3 4 5 6

---

The console messages after enabling DMA (these are copied down from my 
digital camera, so may not be exact, but I think they're pretty close)

hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma_status == 0x21
hde: timeout waiting for DMA
hde: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
ide2: reset phy, status=0x00000113,siimage_reset
hde: drive not ready for command
ide2: reset timed-out, statux 0xd8 { Busy }
hde: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
ide2: reset phy, status=0x00000113,siimage_reset
hde: drive not ready for command
ide2: reset timed-out, statux 0xd8 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:01 (hde), sector (something)
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:01 (hde), sector (something)
journal-601, buffer write failed
kernel BUG at prints.c:334!
invalid operand: 0000
(and then some stack information and call trace information - if this 
is useful, I can type it in too, but it looks essentially like reiserfs
complaining that the disk isn't working)

siimage driver status

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Hello all,
	I have an Asus A7V8X Deluxe motherboard with a couple of WD Raptor 
hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The 
problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel reports 
this on bootup:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
AMD_IDE: Bios didn't set cable bits corectly. Enabling workaround.
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx
AMD_IDE: PCI device 10de:0065 (nVidia Corporation) (rev a2) UDMA100 
controller o
n pci00:09.0
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: SAMSUNG SP4002H, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c02f6d40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: _NEC CD-RW NR-9300A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: WDC WD360GD-00FNA0, ATA DISK drive
hdg: WDC WD360GD-00FNA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xe0800080-0xe0800087,0xe080008a on irq 11
ide3 at 0xe08000c0-0xe08000c7,0xe08000ca on irq 11
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4870/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 72303840 sectors (37020 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=4500/255/63
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area => 1
hdg: 72303840 sectors (37020 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=4500/255/63
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
 hde: unknown partition table
 hdg: unknown partition table

The nforce2 ide controller works great, as does the drive on it. When I 
try to use either of the drives on the siimage controller, it brings 
everything else on my system to a temporary halt, and hdparm -t reports 
about 1.3MB/sec reads. This is a bummer, as I was hoping to RAID 0 them 
together and make them my boot drives :)

If I try and enable DMA, the machine instantly hardlocks.

I'm running debian sarge, if it matters.

Is there anything I should try, or is the siimage driver just still very 
early on in its development? I would be more than happy to beta- (or 
alpha) test code, or give developers access to my box if testbed platforms 
are needed. Whatever I can do to make it work :)

Thanks very much in advance
	-Josiah

Computer Guy
Hampshire College School of NS
Amherst, MA 01002

Re: siimage driver status

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 15:32, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The 
> problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel reports 
> this on bootup:

I'm running the siimage driver fine with several drives. Your setup is
intriguing in that the BIOS has chosen to leave the drives in PIO mode

> SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
>     ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio

Really the SATA drives ought to have come up in UDMA

> everything else on my system to a temporary halt, and hdparm -t reports 
> about 1.3MB/sec reads. This is a bummer, as I was hoping to RAID 0 them 
> together and make them my boot drives :)
> 
> If I try and enable DMA, the machine instantly hardlocks.

Thats with hdparm -X66 -d1 ?

The only updates to the siimage driver are those in 2.4.21-ac which you 
shouldn't need.

Re: siimage driver status

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Wow. I feel dumb. When I add the -X66 to tell the drive as well, then 
everything is peachy. Thanks! :)
Now I suppose I just have to figure out how to make that work on boot 
(perhaps just to make the BIOS put them in DMA mode)
	-Josiah



On 29 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 15:32, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The 
> problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel reports 
> this on bootup:

I'm running the siimage driver fine with several drives. Your setup is
intriguing in that the BIOS has chosen to leave the drives in PIO mode

> SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
>     ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio

Really the SATA drives ought to have come up in UDMA

> everything else on my system to a temporary halt, and hdparm -t reports 
> about 1.3MB/sec reads. This is a bummer, as I was hoping to RAID 0 them 
> together and make them my boot drives :)
> 
> If I try and enable DMA, the machine instantly hardlocks.

Thats with hdparm -X66 -d1 ?

The only updates to the siimage driver are those in 2.4.21-ac which you 
shouldn't need.

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Re: siimage driver status

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 16:00, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Wow. I feel dumb. When I add the -X66 to tell the drive as well, then 
> everything is peachy. Thanks! :)

Its hardly obvious. 

> Now I suppose I just have to figure out how to make that work on boot 
> (perhaps just to make the BIOS put them in DMA mode)

One thing I might do is just make the driver ignore the bios policy for
disk devices. 

Re: siimage driver status

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

That might be nice - would it be possible for you to send me a patch? Or 
is there something I can pass to the kernel at boottime that will make it 
enable DMA? I've been experimenting with ide2=autotune hde=autotune etc 
and that doesn't seem to be working.
Thanks so much,
	-Josiah


On 29 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
<SNIP>
> Now I suppose I just have to figure out how to make that work on boot 
> (perhaps just to make the BIOS put them in DMA mode)

One thing I might do is just make the driver ignore the bios policy for
disk devices. 

Re: siimage driver status

[Gutko]

From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>


> On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 15:32, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> > hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The
> > problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel
reports
> > this on bootup:
>
> I'm running the siimage driver fine with several drives. Your setup is
> intriguing in that the BIOS has chosen to leave the drives in PIO mode
>
> > SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
> > SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
> > SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >     ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> >     ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
>
> Really the SATA drives ought to have come up in UDMA

I have Asus A7N8X deluxe too, and I reported this issue with rc4.
I'm running one IBM vancouver2 180gxp drive on SIL3112A, and I always have
PIO on boot.
I can enable DMA manually and it works good, but I can bet if I connect
second hdd in RAID
with this I already have, I'll get all problems described above!!! My friend
also runs succesfully ONE
hdd in DMA on the same ASUS on sata, but connecting seconf drive blows
everything away..

Gutko

Re: siimage driver status

[Marco Tedaldi]

Gutko wrote:
> From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

> I have Asus A7N8X deluxe too, and I reported this issue with rc4.
> I'm running one IBM vancouver2 180gxp drive on SIL3112A, and I always have
> PIO on boot.
> I can enable DMA manually and it works good, but I can bet if I connect
> second hdd in RAID
> with this I already have, I'll get all problems described above!!! My friend
> also runs succesfully ONE
> hdd in DMA on the same ASUS on sata, but connecting seconf drive blows
> everything away..

This issue was reported by at least 3 People here on the list (including 
me) with different 21-rcX kernels. Seems noone really cared :-(

I hope, this issue now get's addressed.
btw. I could speed up my Transfer-Rate from 1.7MB/s to 55MB/s by setting
hdparm -d1 -X66 on my two native SATA-Drives.

bye

Marco

Re: siimage driver status

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-06-03 at 08:17, Marco Tedaldi wrote:
> This issue was reported by at least 3 People here on the list (including 
> me) with different 21-rcX kernels. Seems noone really cared :-(

Wrong

> I hope, this issue now get's addressed.

It already has been. Its just I like to take the time to make sure a
change is correct rather than dumping it out and seeing if it eats
anyones disks.

Re: siimage driver status

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

I have two drives (WD Raptors) on my A7N8X. I don't see any errors, even 
after writing 9GB of data to the drive (after I've done an hdparm -X66 
-d1 /dev/hd[x]), but it still boots up in pio mode. 
Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices 
to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using 
2.4.21-rc6-ac1
Thanks!
	-Josiah


This issue was reported by at least 3 People here on the list (including 
me) with different 21-rcX kernels. Seems noone really cared :-(

I hope, this issue now get's addressed.
btw. I could speed up my Transfer-Rate from 1.7MB/s to 55MB/s by setting
hdparm -d1 -X66 on my two native SATA-Drives.

bye

Marco

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Re: siimage driver status

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-06-03 at 15:11, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices 
> to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using 
> 2.4.21-rc6-ac1

-ac2 knows the firmware doesn't intialise DMA mode and shouldn't be used
as a safety guide.

Re: siimage driver status

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Yeah, I just tried -ac2 and it does the same thing :)
	-Josiah

On 3 Jun 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

On Maw, 2003-06-03 at 15:11, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices 
> to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using 
> 2.4.21-rc6-ac1

-ac2 knows the firmware doesn't intialise DMA mode and shouldn't be used
as a safety guide.

Re: siimage driver status

[Bob Johnson]

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Has anything been addressed to help the instant lock up when enabling dma 
that alot of users are reporting?


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:49 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-06-03 at 15:11, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> > Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices
> > to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using
> > 2.4.21-rc6-ac1
>
> -ac2 knows the firmware doesn't intialise DMA mode and shouldn't be used
> as a safety guide.
>
>
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Re: siimage driver status

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Does this still happen? It used to happen to me, but as soon as I added 
-X66, per Alan's suggestion, everything is fine.
	-Josiah (currently in the middle of writing 36GB to a two-drive 
RAID 0 array on a sil3112 controller and everything is peachy - fast as 
HELL, actually - grin - I've never seen over 100MB/sec off a RAID 0 of two 
drives before)


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Bob Johnson wrote:

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Has anything been addressed to help the instant lock up when enabling dma 
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Re: siimage driver status

[Bob Johnson]

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yes, ive always added -X66 , the only way to not lock is a trick from siimages 
site (think it was in a mandrake script)
echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/ide/hde/settings

The lockup also happens in latest 2.5 kernels, which the above command
is only for 2.4.

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:29 am, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Does this still happen? It used to happen to me, but as soon as I added

> -X66, per Alan's suggestion, everything is fine.
> 	-Josiah (currently in the middle of writing 36GB to a two-drive
> RAID 0 array on a sil3112 controller and everything is peachy - fast as
> HELL, actually - grin - I've never seen over 100MB/sec off a RAID 0 of two
> drives before)
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Bob Johnson wrote:
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Re: siimage driver status

[Justin Cormack]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:11, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> I have two drives (WD Raptors) on my A7N8X. I don't see any errors, even 
> after writing 9GB of data to the drive (after I've done an hdparm -X66 
> -d1 /dev/hd[x]), but it still boots up in pio mode. 
> Is there some silly hack I can do to the driver code to force all devices 
> to DMA on bootup? Everything works fine except for that. I'm using 
> 2.4.21-rc6-ac1
> Thanks!
> 	-Josiah
> 
> 
> This issue was reported by at least 3 People here on the list (including 
> me) with different 21-rcX kernels. Seems noone really cared :-(
> 
> I hope, this issue now get's addressed.
> btw. I could speed up my Transfer-Rate from 1.7MB/s to 55MB/s by setting
> hdparm -d1 -X66 on my two native SATA-Drives.

I think people care. Andre said he was working on a fix for the Seagate
drives some time back. It does seem that all BIOSs leave SATA drives in
PIO mode. That may be a bios bug really rather than a linux bug. But if
you put the hdparm somewhere early in boot you should be ok, as a
temporary workaround.

Re: siimage driver status

[lk]

> On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 16:00, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> > Wow. I feel dumb. When I add the -X66 to tell the drive as well, then 
> > everything is peachy. Thanks! :)
> 
> Its hardly obvious. 
> 
> > Now I suppose I just have to figure out how to make that work on boot 
> > (perhaps just to make the BIOS put them in DMA mode)
> 
> One thing I might do is just make the driver ignore the bios policy for
> disk devices. 

I reinstalled my SiImage controller this morning because I hadn't
documented using the -X66 switch during my previous testing.  It actually
makes a bit of a difference- the DMA enables and THEN the machine locks
hard when any reasonable amount of data is written to the drives on the
controller.

I get two console messages before the machine locks hard:
hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x22
hde: dma_timer_expiry status = 0xd8 { Busy }

I'd love to get this tracked down...


Brian.

-----------------------

from /var/log/messages

May 30 11:34:38 nfs2 kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 05:02.0
May 30 11:34:38 nfs2 kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
May 30 11:34:38 nfs2 kernel: SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
May 30 11:34:38 nfs2 kernel:     ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
May 30 11:34:38 nfs2 kernel:     ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio

----
hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hde
hdparm -X66 -d1 /dev/hdg

[root@nfs2 settings]# cat /proc/ide/siimage 
Controller: 0
SiI3112 Chipset.
MMIO Base 0xf880d000
MMIO-DMA Base 0xf880d000
MMIO-DMA Base 0xf880d008
--------------- Primary Channel ---------------- Secondary Channel -------------
--------------- drive0 --------- drive1 -------- drive0 ---------- drive1 ------
PIO Mode:       ?                ?               ?                 ?




hdparm -I /dev/hde

/dev/hde:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       Maxtor 6Y200P0                          
        Serial Number:      Yv0AXR8E            
        Firmware Revision:  YAR41VW0
Standards:
        Supported: 7 6 5 4 
        Likely used: 7
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   65535
        heads           16      1
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:    4128705
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors:  402622464
        device size with M = 1024*1024:      196593 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:      206142 MBytes (206 GB)
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Queue depth: 1
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific 
minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16
        Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0000)
        Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    NOP cmd
           *    READ BUFFER cmd
           *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Write cache
           *    Power Management feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    SMART feature set
           *    FLUSH CACHE EXT command
           *    Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command 
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set 
           *    48-bit Address feature set 
           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set 
                SET MAX security extension
                Advanced Power Management feature set
           *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
           *    SMART self-test 
           *    SMART error logging 
Security: 
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
        not     frozen
        not     expired: security count
        not     supported: enhanced erase
HW reset results:
        CBLID- above Vih
        Device num = 0 determined by the jumper




/proc/cpuinfo

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 2
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping	: 7
cpu MHz		: 2399.366
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips	: 4784.12

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 2
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping	: 7
cpu MHz		: 2399.366
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips	: 4797.23

processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 2
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping	: 7
cpu MHz		: 2399.366
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips	: 4797.23

processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 2
model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping	: 7
cpu MHz		: 2399.366
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips	: 4797.23



lspci -vvv

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 254c (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc: Unknown device 3480
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Capabilities: [40] #09 [1105]

00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. e7500 [Plumas] DRAM Controller Error Reporting (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. e7500 [Plumas] HI_B Virtual PCI Bridge (F0) (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
	Memory behind bridge: fc100000-fc2fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. e7500 [Plumas] HI_C Virtual PCI Bridge (F0) (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00005fff
	Memory behind bridge: fc300000-fcffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	Region 4: I/O ports at 2000 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
	Region 4: I/O ports at 2020 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
	Region 4: I/O ports at 2040 [size=32]

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 42) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
	Memory behind bridge: fd000000-fe0fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CA IDE U100 (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
	Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored>
	Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored>
	Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored>
	Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored>
	Region 4: I/O ports at 2060 [size=16]
	Region 5: Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 0
	Region 4: I/O ports at 1100 [size=32]

01:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Region 0: Memory at fc100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
01:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64, cache line size 10
	Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff
	Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-0000000000000000
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort+ >Reset- FastB2B-
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE+ ERO+ RBC=0 OST=4
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
01:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Region 0: Memory at fc101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
01:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64, cache line size 10
	Bus: primary=01, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
	I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
	Memory behind bridge: fc200000-fc2fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-0000000000000000
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort+ >Reset- FastB2B-
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE+ ERO+ RBC=0 OST=4
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Intel Corp. PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64 (63750ns min), cache line size 08
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 28
	Region 0: Memory at fc200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Region 4: I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
	Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-	Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000

03:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Intel Corp. PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64 (63750ns min), cache line size 08
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 29
	Region 0: Memory at fc220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Region 4: I/O ports at 3040 [size=64]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
	Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-	Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000

04:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Region 0: Memory at fc300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
04:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64, cache line size 10
	Bus: primary=04, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=48
	I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
	Memory behind bridge: fc400000-fc4fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-0000000000000000
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort+ >Reset- FastB2B-
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE+ ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
04:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC])
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc P4DP6
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 0
	Region 0: Memory at fc301000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
04:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64, cache line size 10
	Bus: primary=04, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=48
	I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
	Memory behind bridge: fc500000-fcffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-0000000000000000
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort+ >Reset- FastB2B-
	Capabilities: [50] PCI-X non-bridge device.
		Command: DPERE+ ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0
		Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM-
05:02.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: CMD Technology Inc: Unknown device 6112
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64, cache line size 01
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 100
	Region 0: I/O ports at 4020 [size=8]
	Region 1: I/O ports at 4010 [size=4]
	Region 2: I/O ports at 4018 [size=8]
	Region 3: I/O ports at 4014 [size=4]
	Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=16]
	Region 5: Memory at fc400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=512K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

07:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64 (2000ns min), cache line size 08
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Region 1: I/O ports at 6000 [size=256]
	Region 2: Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Re: siimage driver status

[Bob Johnson]

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This is the exact problem i have with onboard siimage (asus a7n8x)
 or a siimage controller card on a abit motherboard. (kt7a)

echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/ide/hde/settings
is a work around for 2.4.XX.

				Bob

> I get two console messages before the machine locks hard:
> hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x22
> hde: dma_timer_expiry status = 0xd8 { Busy }
>
> I'd love to get this tracked down...
>
>
> Brian.
>
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Re: siimage driver status

[lk]

> 	I have an Asus A7V8X Deluxe motherboard with a couple of WD Raptor 
> hard drives that I'm trying to get to work with linux 2.4.21-rc6. The 
> problem I'm having is that it's REALLY slow and crashy. The kernel reports 
> this on bootup:

> SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0

> If I try and enable DMA, the machine instantly hardlocks.
> 
> Is there anything I should try, or is the siimage driver just still very 
> early on in its development? I would be more than happy to beta- (or 
> alpha) test code, or give developers access to my box if testbed platforms 
> are needed. Whatever I can do to make it work :)

I have the same problem, and reported it back in 2.4.21-pre-something, but
nobody seemed interested.  I have the same problem with onboard chipsets
as with addon PCI cards from various manufacturers.  It's absolutely
impossible to enable DMA on the SiI controllers.  The "funny" thing is
that I purchased them on a recommendation from someone on lk who glowed
over their robustness.