Do you have the ehci driver loaded on your opteron system?

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Mark Watts wrote:

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> I have a Tyan S2875 board with two Opteron processors.
>
> Kernel is 2.6.3 running on Mandrake 10.0 Community.
>
> On the ATX back panel are four USB ports. Two are in the same block as the lan
> port and the other two are on their own.
> There are some additional headers on the motherboard, one per controller.
>
> According to lspci, I have the following USB controllers:
>
> 01:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
> (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>         Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
>         Memory at fc9fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>
> 01:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
> (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>         Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
>         Memory at fc9fd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>
> 01:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 61) (prog-if 00
> [UHCI])
>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
>         I/O ports at a800 [size=32]
>         Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
> 01:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 61) (prog-if 00
> [UHCI])
>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
>         I/O ports at a880 [size=32]
>         Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
> 01:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 62) (prog-if 20
> [EHCI])
>         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
>         Memory at fc9ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>         Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>
> - From what I can gather, the two separate ports are the AMD controller, and
> they only support USB 1.1. The motherboard manual supports this theory.
>
> The other ports are the VIA controller, and they support both USB 1.1 and USB
> 2.0.
>
> Whichever ports I plug a USB 2.0 20Gig hard drive into, I only get USB1.1
> speeds out of it.
> Using usbview shows that if I plug the drive into the VIA ports, its using the
> uhci-hcd driver.
> If I use the AMD ports, it uses the ohci-hcd driver.
>
> If I use the system case USB header plugged into the USB2.0 motherboard header
> (as marked in the motherboard manual) the light on my drive comes on but the
> system doesn't even acknowledge that I plugged anything in.
>
>
> On my AthlonXP system with a VIA USB 1.1/2.0 controller, I can use any port on
> the motherboard to plug my drive into and I will always use the ehci-hcd
> driver and get USB 2.0 data rates, even if the uhci-hcd driver is loaded too.
>
>
> Is there any way of either forcing the VIA ports to use only the ehci-hcd
> driver, or is there something else going on?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
> - --
> Mark Watts
> Senior Systems Engineer
> QinetiQ TIM
> St Andrews Road, Malvern
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