Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:17:55 -0800
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bubbled:
> Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
> > enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
> >
> > But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
> > some DMA warnings/errors:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> >
> > ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
> > hda: DMA timeout error
> > hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ...
> >
> > That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch
> > away from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
>
> Could you please check whether 2.6.11-rc1 does this? It should be
> released mid-week. Thanks.
ps.: just booted 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 and hdparm works now much better on boot
than 2.6.11-mm3. ;)
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Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:17:55 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] bubbled:
Martin Zwickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
some DMA warnings/errors:
...
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
...
That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch
away from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
Could you please check whether 2.6.11-rc1 does this? It should be
released mid-week. Thanks.
ps.: just booted 2.6.12-rc1-mm1 and hdparm works now much better on boot
than 2.6.11-mm3. ;)
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Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
> enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
Martin, could you please test 2.6.12-rc1?
(2.6.12-rc1-mm1 did not include Bart's tree because that's causing an oops
in idecd_open() on ppc64 which I need to look into).
(But 2.6.11-mm3 didn't include Bart's tree either)
What happens if you don't run hdparm at boot-time and just let the kernel
handle the mode setting?
> But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
> some DMA warnings/errors:
>
> [dmesg output]
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:02.5
> SIS5513: chipset revision 0
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Probing IDE interface ide2...
> Probing IDE interface ide3...
> Probing IDE interface ide4...
> Probing IDE interface ide5...
> hda: max request size: 1024KiB
> hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,
> UDMA(100)
> hda: cache flushes supported
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
> hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
>
>
>
> BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
>
>
>
> hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
> hda: DMA timeout error
> hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
> hda: CHECK for good STATUS
> hdc: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
> [/dmesg output]
>
> That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch away
> from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
>
> In kernel config I enabled:
> CONFIG_EDD=y
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
> CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
> CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
>
> CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
> CONFIG_ACPI=y
>
>
> My machine:
> Pentium 4 - 2,4Ghz
>
>
> cat /proc/interrupts:
> 14: 26411 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 24 XT-PIC ide1
>
>
> lspci -vvxxx:
> :00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
> (prog-if 80 [Master])
> Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller
> (A,B step)
> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> SERR- Latency: 128
> Region 4: I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]
> 00: 39 10 13 55 05 00 00 02 00 80 01 01 00 80 00 00
> 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 20: 01 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 39 10 13 55
> 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00
> 50: f2 00 f2 00 2a 96 d5 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 60: fb aa fb aa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 70: 17 21 06 04 00 00 00 00 56 23 06 04 00 00 00 00
> 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
>
>
> Any hint/clue about that?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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> local dealer.
>
> Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Research & Development
>
> TechnoTrend AG
>
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Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:17:55 -0800
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bubbled:
> Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
> > enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
> >
> > But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
> > some DMA warnings/errors:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> >
> > ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
> > hda: DMA timeout error
> > hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ...
> >
> > That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch
> > away from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
>
> Could you please check whether 2.6.11-rc1 does this? It should be
> released mid-week. Thanks.
Hi Andrew,
you mean 2.6.12-rc1, right?
Regards,
Martin
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Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:17:55 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] bubbled:
Martin Zwickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
some DMA warnings/errors:
...
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
...
That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch
away from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
Could you please check whether 2.6.11-rc1 does this? It should be
released mid-week. Thanks.
Hi Andrew,
you mean 2.6.12-rc1, right?
Regards,
Martin
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Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
> enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
>
> But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
> some DMA warnings/errors:
>
> ...
>
> hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
> hda: DMA timeout error
> hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> ...
>
> That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch away
> from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
Could you please check whether 2.6.11-rc1 does this? It should be released
mid-week. Thanks.
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2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
Hi,
just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
some DMA warnings/errors:
[dmesg output]
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
hda: CHECK for good STATUS
hdc: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
[/dmesg output]
That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch away
from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
In kernel config I enabled:
CONFIG_EDD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
My machine:
Pentium 4 - 2,4Ghz
cat /proc/interrupts:
14: 26411 XT-PIC ide0
15: 24 XT-PIC ide1
lspci -vvxxx:
:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
(prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller
(A,B step)
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
SERR-
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2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
Hi,
just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
some DMA warnings/errors:
[dmesg output]
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
hda: CHECK for good STATUS
hdc: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
[/dmesg output]
That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch away
from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
In kernel config I enabled:
CONFIG_EDD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
My machine:
Pentium 4 - 2,4Ghz
cat /proc/interrupts:
14: 26411 XT-PIC ide0
15: 24 XT-PIC ide1
lspci -vvxxx:
:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
(prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller
(A,B step)
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: 128
Region 4: I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]
00: 39 10 13 55 05 00 00 02 00 80 01 01 00 80 00 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 01 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 39 10 13 55
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00
50: f2 00 f2 00 2a 96 d5 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60: fb aa fb aa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 17 21 06 04 00 00 00 00 56 23 06 04 00 00 00 00
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Any hint/clue about that?
Regards,
Martin
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MyExcuse:
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Re: 2.6.11-mm3: SIS5513 DMA problem (set_drive_speed_status)
Martin Zwickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
just tried the 2.6.11-mm3 and at boot-time my start scripts try to
enable DMA on my disk (hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda).
But while running hdparm, the kernel waits many seconds and gives me
some DMA warnings/errors:
...
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
...
That happened also with 2.6.11-rc3 since I thought I should switch away
from my 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 (the best kernel ever ;)).
Could you please check whether 2.6.11-rc1 does this? It should be released
mid-week. Thanks.
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