[PATCH] HPA Detect From Resume

2007-05-12 Thread Lee Trager
Currently when system which have HPA require HPA to be detected and disabled upon resume from RAM or disk. The current IDE drivers do not do this nor does libata(obviously it since it doesn't support HPA yet). I have implemented this into the current IDE drivers and it has been tested by many

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-12 Thread Andreas Arens
Jeff Garzik wrote: Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus .. Andrew Morton (1): git-libata-all: sata_via build fix .. diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c index

[PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue

2007-05-12 Thread Olof Johansson
Glue code to hook up the pata_platform on the PA Semi Electra eval board. CFE sets up device tree entries for the IDE interface, with device type 'ide' and compatible field 'electra-ide'. We unfortunately need to modify the resources before calling the generic platform driver, since the device

Re: sata_promise: which version/patch to test?

2007-05-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:41:32 +0200, Peter Favrholdt wrote: I would like to help by testing the most recent version of the sata_promise driver on my Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02) with 4 Seagate 500GB ES drives: Model Number: ST3500630NS

ata/scsi crash on halt

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Morton
This is current mainline plus a few patches which I've just sent to Linus: loop_probe-fix-return-value.patch fault-injection-disable-stacktrace-filter-for-x86-64.patch ntfs-use-zero_user_page.patch tty-flush-flip-buffer-on-ldisc-input-queue-flush.patch missing-include-file-in-tpm_atmelh.patch

Re: sata_promise: which version/patch to test?

2007-05-12 Thread Peter Favrholdt
Replying to my own post: Wanted to add that the ata1 port just died even without doing any smartctl's - and not recovering. BR Peter Peter Favrholdt wrote: Hi, I've tested with 2.6.21.1 with the following patches (which applied cleanly):

Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Hancock
Fred Moyer wrote: I just joined the list today so apologies if this email breaks any email client post threading. I have been seeing similar errors on two different systems. I applied Robert's sata_nv patch posted to the list on May 5th, and approved today by Jeff Garzik. I've taken

Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

2007-05-12 Thread Fred Moyer
Robert Hancock wrote: Fred Moyer wrote: I just joined the list today so apologies if this email breaks any email client post threading. I have been seeing similar errors on two different systems. I applied Robert's sata_nv patch posted to the list on May 5th, and approved today by Jeff

Re: ata/scsi crash on halt

2007-05-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 11:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: [ 715.196000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache [ 715.196000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk [ 715.196000] ata3.00: DISK MIGHT NOT BE SPUN DOWN PROPERLY. UPDATE SHUTDOWN UTILITY [ 715.196000] ata3.00: For more info, visit

Re: sata_promise: which version/patch to test?

2007-05-12 Thread Peter Favrholdt
I have now tested with 2.6.21-git16 with the same result: sda and sdd froze after copying 1.7GB and 2.7GB respectively. Here is dmesg output: [ 59.070670] sata_promise :01:08.0: version 2.07 stuff deleted [ 402.136295] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x138 action 0x2

Re: [PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue

2007-05-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 12 May 2007, Olof Johansson wrote: We unfortunately need to modify the resources before calling the generic platform driver, since the device tree only has one register window in it and the driver expects two. Adding this as an of_platform driver instead doesn't give us any

Re: [PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue

2007-05-12 Thread Alan Cox
Why not provide a proper pata_of.c driver based on ata_generic? That will help the next person that has a builtin ata controller and wants to get it running as an of_device. Easier to use pata_platform I would think ? Just create the OF device and bind it to pata_platform. Alan - To

Re: [PATCH] pasemi: electra IDE/pata_platform glue

2007-05-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 13 May 2007, Alan Cox wrote: Why not provide a proper pata_of.c driver based on ata_generic? That will help the next person that has a builtin ata controller and wants to get it running as an of_device. Easier to use pata_platform I would think ? Just create the OF device and

Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Hancock
Fred Moyer wrote: This appears to be a different problem. Something is issuing SMART-related commands (smartd or smartctl perhaps) which the drive seems to be reacting strangely to. It apparently completed the command but never raised DRQ to request any data being transferred even though we

Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

2007-05-12 Thread Fred Moyer
Robert Hancock wrote: Fred Moyer wrote: This appears to be a different problem. Something is issuing SMART-related commands (smartd or smartctl perhaps) which the drive seems to be reacting strangely to. It apparently completed the command but never raised DRQ to request any data being

Re: ASUS M2A-VM - AMD690G - SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA - problem

2007-05-12 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: Oh well, that's the price you have to pay when you 1. have a device which can't access memory above 4G but 2. don't have IOMMU to do it for the device. If performance becomes problem, you can always get a