wierd ata driver problem

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
with a -STABLE as of last night at 1:30 AM EST the ata driver refuses to configure my DVD drive. Here is the output of a dmesg: ad0: 8063MB [16383/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 13029MB [26473/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 ad2: 14655MB [29777/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA66 ata0-slave: <\M-vO\M-

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Allen Pulsifer wrote: > According to the DPTA-3x spec from IBM, if the drive has fully entered > Standby mode, it can take up to 31 seconds for it to spin back up. > (See sections 3.3.6.1 and 13.0). Other drive models may take even > longer, and even after the drive is back up, it ma

RE: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Allen Pulsifer
] > Cc: Richard Seaman Jr.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact) > > > It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 11:20:51PM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Sorry, > > I found a rather easy workaround. Disable DMA for > the disks in the BIOS ... But I still wonder why > enable/disable ATA DMA in kernel has no effect for > this crash. Why does only the BIOS disable help ? Purely a wil

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Martin Blapp wrote: > > Sorry, > > I found a rather easy workaround. Disable DMA for > the disks in the BIOS ... But I still wonder why > enable/disable ATA DMA in kernel has no effect for > this crash. Why does only the BIOS disable help ? No idea, I have to study AMD's southbridge fi

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Martin Blapp
Sorry, I found a rather easy workaround. Disable DMA for the disks in the BIOS ... But I still wonder why enable/disable ATA DMA in kernel has no effect for this crash. Why does only the BIOS disable help ? ata-pci0: at device 7.1 on pci0 ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA supported ata0 at 0x01f0 irq

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can > > give it a command and se how long it takes before it comes back :) > > > > The problem here is that it takes the command and OK's

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:44:42PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > There is no way to see if the disk was in suspend mode, you can > give it a command and se how long it takes before it comes back :) > > The problem here is that it takes the command and OK's it, but it > takes the spinuptime + over

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 02:28:29PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > Because the wd driver has a 10 secs timeout, and ata has 5 secs. > > I think the easiest way to "solve" this is to increase the > > timeout to 10-15 secs, as little as I want to do that...

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Martin Blapp wrote: > I've bought two new 16GB ATA disks and am not able to boot > anymore since wd0 has been retired: > > Fresh current from today: > > [...] > ad0: ad_timeout: lost disk contact > ata0: resetting devices > > and after it hangs forever. > > I tried IDE_DELAY=1 and

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-18 Thread Martin Blapp
hi, I've bought two new 16GB ATA disks and am not able to boot anymore since wd0 has been retired: Fresh current from today: [...] ad0: ad_timeout: lost disk contact ata0: resetting devices and after it hangs forever. I tried IDE_DELAY=1 and 15000 but it did not change anything. Break i

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-17 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 02:28:29PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > Because the wd driver has a 10 secs timeout, and ata has 5 secs. > I think the easiest way to "solve" this is to increase the > timeout to 10-15 secs, as little as I want to do that... I don't really understand disk drivers, so if

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > Yup, sounds like the problem some are seing, now I wonder why I > > havn't seen it on any of the IBM disks I've access to, hmm... > > > > It apparantly can't be disabled, but I'll try to figure out if > > I can detect when the drive is in this mode, or p

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-17 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 08:22:03AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > Yup, sounds like the problem some are seing, now I wonder why I > havn't seen it on any of the IBM disks I've access to, hmm... > > It apparantly can't be disabled, but I'll try to figure out if > I can detect when the drive is in

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Soren Schmidt writes: >It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > >Yup, sounds like the problem some are seing, now I wonder why I >havn't seen it on any of the IBM disks I've access to, hmm... > >It apparantly can't be disabled, but I'll try to figure out if >I can dete

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: Yup, sounds like the problem some are seing, now I wonder why I havn't seen it on any of the IBM disks I've access to, hmm... It apparantly can't be disabled, but I'll try to figure out if I can detect when the drive is in this mode, or put it in standby mode

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 04:50:55PM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > Check http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/prodspec/djna_spw.pdf > If a command is received during spin down of ADM, the drive quits the spin down > and tries to complete the command as soon as possible. > In case the sp

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:25:11AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > There is this thing with the IBM's doing some headcleaning stuff once > a day/week, but I've never seen any of my IBM's do that (I got plenty > of them). I'll try to get more info on that from IBM... Check http://www.storage.ibm.co

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > Uhm, that wont be new WD drives, as they are exactly the same as > > IBM drives give or take the label :) > > Huh? That I didn't know. So you're saying that WD and IBM 18 Gb disks are > the same har

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > Uhm, that wont be new WD drives, as they are exactly the same as > IBM drives give or take the label :) Huh? That I didn't know. So you're saying that WD and IBM 18 Gb disks are the same hardware? My disk: ad0: ATA-4 disk at at

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:10:46AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > Dec 15 19:01:02 test /kernel: ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - >resetting > > Dec 15 19:01:02 test /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > > > Dec 16 07:01:24 test /kernel:

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:10:46AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > Dec 15 19:01:02 test /kernel: ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting > Dec 15 19:01:02 test /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. done > Dec 16 07:01:24 test /kernel: ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:25:11AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > > > > I am still having "disc contact lost messages" regularly too. I've been > > posting about them on several occasions some time ago. I haven't been able > > to pinn it down, however. IF they occu

Re: ATA driver problem?? Solution (in my case)!

1999-12-16 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi Soren, No unfortunately it still fails with the patch and the UDMA disabled in the BIOS. I'd be happy to try anything else you can think of. :) Thanks. -- Regards, Devin. Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > > Hi Soren/group, > > > > After spending a little time sni

Re: ATA driver problem?? Solution (in my case)!

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > Hi Soren/group, > > After spending a little time sniffing around in my BIOS I realized that > my BIOS (Award BIOS) defaults to disabling UDMA for both master and > slave and for some reason I never thought to check thisduh. Anyway > after setting this to "a

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dave J. Boers wrote: > I am still having "disc contact lost messages" regularly too. [...] > There are two important aspects of the problem: > > 1. The problem does not always occur: it's unpredictable > 2. When it occurs, I can actually hear the disk spinnin

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dave J. Boers wrote: > Could you tell met the exact time on which these messages occurred? > Anywhere near 10:15 or 9:15 ? nope. the time is unpredictable. sometimes it can work more than a day without spilling out those messages /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: ATA driver problem?? Solution (in my case)!

1999-12-16 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi Soren/group, After spending a little time sniffing around in my BIOS I realized that my BIOS (Award BIOS) defaults to disabling UDMA for both master and slave and for some reason I never thought to check thisduh. Anyway after setting this to "auto" for both master and slave the problem see

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:29:30PM +0600, Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > same here, dmesg output: > > ata_command: timeout waiting for interrupt > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ata0-master: ad_timeo

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > That's interesting...In my case it is quite easily reproduced (very > predictable). All I have to do is reboot and then run sysinstall and > when it probes the devices the disks time out. So far I have not been > able to get this behavior at any other time. > >

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:36:42AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > One more thing, do you have SMART enabled in your BIOS ??, if so > turn it off, and see if that changes anything... I don't recall having it enabled; but I will check to make sure as soon as I get home from work (which is still some

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi, "Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:29:14AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > > > I just recently compiled a kernel with the new ATA driver and have > > > discovered a problem: if I run sysinstall, right when it says "probing > > > devices,

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > > > > I am still having "disc contact lost messages" regularly too. I've been > > posting about them on several occasions some time ago. I haven't been able > > to pinn it down, however. IF they occur, they occur somewhere between 9

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dave J. Boers wrote: > > I am still having "disc contact lost messages" regularly too. I've been > posting about them on several occasions some time ago. I haven't been able > to pinn it down, however. IF they occur, they occur somewhere between 9:15 > and 9:20 a.m. OR p.m. But they don

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-16 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:29:14AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > > I just recently compiled a kernel with the new ATA driver and have > > discovered a problem: if I run sysinstall, right when it says "probing > > devices, please wait (this can be a while)" error

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Devin Butterfield wrote: > Hi, > > I just recently compiled a kernel with the new ATA driver and have > discovered a problem: if I run sysinstall, right when it says "probing > devices, please wait (this can be a while)" error messages saying... [snip] > and after printing these messages

ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi, I just recently compiled a kernel with the new ATA driver and have discovered a problem: if I run sysinstall, right when it says "probing devices, please wait (this can be a while)" error messages saying... Dec 15 21:20:05 dbm /kernel: ata0-slave: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting De

Re: ATA Driver Problem

1999-09-27 Thread Jeremy L. Stock
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: >It seems Jeremy L. Stock wrote: >>>Are you sure you have the latest versions of everything in /sys/dev/ata ?? >>>There was a window of opportunity where I messed up unless ATA_STATIC_ID >>>was defined... >>> >>>-Søren >>> >> >>Fairly positive I have the

Re: ATA Driver Problem

1999-09-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jeremy L. Stock wrote: >>Are you sure you have the latest versions of everything in /sys/dev/ata ?? >>There was a window of opportunity where I messed up unless ATA_STATIC_ID >>was defined... >> >>-Søren >> > >Fairly positive I have the latest versions. I cvsup'ed twice yesterday. I >forg

Re: ATA Driver Problem

1999-09-27 Thread Jeremy L. Stock
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: >It seems Jeremy L. Stock wrote: >> I have two hard drives both Western Digital 8.4GB (primary master) 6.4GB >> (primary slave) and a CDROM as secondary master. The driver detects the >> 8.4GB and my cdrom but doesn't seem to see the second hd at all. I'd

Re: ATA Driver Problem

1999-09-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jeremy L. Stock wrote: > I have two hard drives both Western Digital 8.4GB (primary master) 6.4GB > (primary slave) and a CDROM as secondary master. The driver detects the > 8.4GB and my cdrom but doesn't seem to see the second hd at all. I'd provide > more info if I could but / lives on

ATA Driver Problem

1999-09-27 Thread Jeremy L. Stock
I have two hard drives both Western Digital 8.4GB (primary master) 6.4GB (primary slave) and a CDROM as secondary master. The driver detects the 8.4GB and my cdrom but doesn't seem to see the second hd at all. I'd provide more info if I could but / lives on the second drive so I'm not sure if I ca

ATA driver problem ?

1999-05-19 Thread Tomer Weller
i've been using the ATA driver for a while now, but since my last word & kernel i get "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" at the end of the dmesg and i have to fsck /. my last world was about 2 dayz ago. dmesg output for that ATA driver : ad1: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as slave ad1: 6149MB (12