Re: Re:

2005-09-07 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:30 +0200, Riccardo Castellani wrote: I'm sure that I replaced old 80-wire cable with newer 80-wire IDE cable. What happens if you use the cable you used previously (just for testing)? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: TX4000 RAID and sata_promise

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:33 +0400, Yuri Kirsanov wrote: Good day. I've tried latest kernel 2.6.13-rc7, TX4000 support seems to be in sata_promise already. After startup I see following in dmesg: libata version 1.12 loaded. sata_promise version 1.02 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device :01:09.0

Re: TX4000 RAID and sata_promise

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 21:08 +0400, Yuri Kirsanov wrote: As you can see, only one hard drive is connected to my TX4000, and because I disabled sata check I get abnormal status on another ports. But my hard drive works just fine! I'm looking forward to attach another hard drive and create RAID

RE: Promise SATAII150 TX4: strange disk ordering

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Slagter
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:35 +0930, Allen Bolderoff wrote: driver and introducing driver options to manually order the ports? How can I ensure stable device names (/dev/sd*)? I use LVM. However - this card/driver is known to break when using more than 1 drive at a time (ie accessing 2 or

Re: #undef ATA_ENABLE_PATA

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Slagter
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:36 +0900, Horms wrote: #undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ #undef ATA_ENABLE_PATA /* define to enable PATA support in some These two would very interesting to me to be included in Kconfig. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Problems with DMA enabling

2005-08-18 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:31 -0400, Davidlohr Bueso A. wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:59 +0200, Erik Slagter wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:40 -0400, Davidlohr Bueso A. wrote: ROFL! Sorry... I didn't mention that I recompiled/rebooted my system after making the changes because

Re: UDMA modes

2005-08-18 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 08:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probing IDE interface ide1... hdd: LG CD-ROM CRD-8521B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ??? Your cdrom drive is slave with no master? hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB)

Re: Problems with DMA enabling

2005-08-17 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:40 -0400, Davidlohr Bueso A. wrote: After googling I discovered that the solution for many was changing in include/linux/libata.h #undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ to #define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ ROFL!

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-16 Thread Erik Slagter
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 17:39 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: I already had it working this way, actually, but it has a bad habit of locking up solid every now and then. So I'll wait and in the meantime use my patched kernel (=all drives on IDE). That's a different problem, with a one-liner fix

Re: TX4000 RAID and sata_promise

2005-08-16 Thread Erik Slagter
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:35 +0400, Yuri Kirsanov wrote: Right, I'd like to do that, but even when no raid is defined in BIOS, Linux can't see any hard disks on any ports of that card... I'll check out dmraid today's evening. Thanks for replies. You'd better take on step at a time. That is,

Re: UDMA modes

2005-08-16 Thread Erik Slagter
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:21 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Maxtor Hard Disk supports UDMA = 6 (133) How can I control BITS options in controller ? What's line command ? How can I verify controller is properly configured in my kernel ? cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig device drivers -

Re: Re[4]: TX4000 RAID and sata_promise

2005-08-16 Thread Erik Slagter
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:47 +0400, Yuri Kirsanov wrote: Roger, dmesg (sata_promise doesn't load at boot time for some reason, so i start it by 'modprobe sata_promise'): Hmm, then I guess it would be very interesting to know WHY it doesn't load at boot time! What are the symptoms? sata_promise

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:21 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Erik Slagter wrote: Your patch was wrong because the SATA device should always be claimed by libata. The system is thus: 1) drivers/pci/quirks.c reserves SATA ports (only!) for libata 2) Legacy IDE driver claims the unreserved PATA

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Tyler wrote: Jeff, I think he stated in an earlier post to the list, the model number of the drive, and it is in fact a PATA drive... verified by checking fujitsu's website. Or are you just saying that it shows up as sata by coming

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:56 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Nope. The harddisk is not SATA, it's PATA. See the links I posted earlier. That's the whole point. The controller thinks its a SATA device, so there is probably a bridge installed. I suppose it's something like that. It's all very

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:44 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: BTW afaik you won't be able be able to control DMA on the dvd drive with this setup, so I'll stick to my patched kernel for the moment (= both diskcdrom are assigned to ide). That's normal for combined mode. Until libata can do ATAPI

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-13 Thread Erik Slagter
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:30 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html I couldn't see any

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 23:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Most current laptops ship with a PATA hard drive, and a PATA ATAPI drive. The easiest way to make them usable under Linux-2.6 is to patch libata and turn on ATAPI support, using ata_piix. No, the best thing to do is use the IDE

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:03 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Most current laptops ship with a PATA hard drive, and a PATA ATAPI drive. The easiest way to make them usable under Linux-2.6 New laptops rather ship with: SATA (or PATA + bridge) hard disk and PATA ATAPI drive How

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:26 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: As ICH6M features both PATA and SATA connections, I don't see why they'd use a PATA bridge... The DVD drives use PATA anyway, btw. AFAIR ICH6M has only one PATA port and putting both HDD and DVD drive on the same PATA port

Re: Promise PDC20775 (SATA300 TX2plus) PATA support

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:23 +0200, Raphael Bossek wrote: Will http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.bz2 add support for PDC20775 PATA interface? Could not find any reference to this device within the sources. Doesn't seem to do it. Although I

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Slagter
AFAIR ICH6M has only one PATA port and putting both HDD and DVD drive on the same PATA port would sacrifice performance (because only one PATA device can be used at a time). That's duff. The PATA harddisk that is used in my laptop, also comes in a SATA version... You didn't even

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Slagter
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:19 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: currently no one should be using libata for PATA support. We emailed back and forth extensively about how this has not been true since early this year. Modern laptops are using libata for the

Re: libata and PATA devices

2005-08-08 Thread Erik Slagter
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 23:02 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:43:41AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: I don't know much about PATA support. All I know is that ICH's seem to generate a lot of noise in this mailing list w/ its legacy, combined, ahci and whatever modes and no

Re: Looking for support of Promise PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus)

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Slagter
I'm looking for 2.6 support of this kind of Promise controller. Is there any progress ongoing to support this kind of hardware with SATA and PATA conectors? Promise released GPL source code Linux 2.4 driver for this controllers PDC40518Promise SATAII150 TX4 PDC20575Promise

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-08 Thread Erik Slagter
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:06 +1000, Grant Coady wrote: I've not been able to get dual channel I/O speed faster than single interface speed, either as 'md' RAID0 or simultaneous reading or writing done the other day: Time to write or read 500MB file: summary 2.4.31-hf1

Readahead with softraid1

2005-07-08 Thread Erik Slagter
Hi, I am using softraid 1 on two sata disks and I'm trying to get the best possible performance. IMHO read actions (if properly addressed) should be split over the two drivers and performed independently. However, I don't notice anything to back this up. The read performance (with the dreaded