Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-26 Thread Brad Rosser
Hello Boris, Bart,

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Borislav Petkov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:
 
  ... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered correctly?

  ok, let's try something else: change the line #if 0 to #if 1 at the
  beginning of kernel/params.c, it looks like:

  #if 0
  #define DEBUGP printk
  #else
  #define DEBUGP(fmt, a...)
  #endif

  rebuild your kernel, and reboot with it. Then, please send me that boot log 
 to
  see whether the kernel command line is being received from the boot loader 
 and
  what exactly is getting parsed. Thanks.

Boris,  I've done that; the output is in attached file dmesg.debug.out.

It looks to me that the kernel still found the IDE DVD drive (hda) ...
in addition
to the system messages when the system was up I found the ide_cd_mod
module loaded on top of 'cdrom' as normal.

  Please see whether you can apply the patch Bart just sent and if that still 
 gets
  mangled and cannot be applied, consider making those changes to ide-cd.c by 
 hand
  - after all, there are only several lines that need to be changed so it won't
  take that long.

Bart, I was able to apply that patch file you attached with no problems, and the
behaviour of the patched kernel changed as follows:

- no more 'confused' messages, nor the rush of other critical messages
that accompanied a system hang on one out of four tests yesterday.

- However, a new message that popped up twice; once after a few seconds
of network activity, and then about 15-20 seconds afterwards:

hda: ide_cd_check_ireason: wrong transfer direction!
hda: ide_cd_check_ireason: wrong transfer direction!

- also, I'm pretty sure that performance of both network and DVD drive suffered.

As to the last ... my new PC, on which I'm doing all this testing, has a gigabit
Realtek NIC.  It's hooked up via null UTP cable to my older machine which has
a 100Mb/s card.  ethtool shows that they both auto-negotiate to run at 100Mb/s
full duplex.  When I run my network test (pumping through /dev/zero across ssh
from the old machine to the new) the network stats tell me that I'm getting
10MB/s out of the link, which is what I would expect.

With the patched 2.6.25-rc2 kernel running with no activity reading the DVD
but the network going flat out (on the old PC's end) I noted that I was only
getting only 8.0 or 8.1 MB/sec, rather than the 10 MB/sec I've seen in the other
tests..  There was no other network traffic or cpu load on the machine(s).

Then, when I mounted a DVD disc and did a 'wc /mnt/*' of its contents
an iostat showed me that I was getting only about 6MB/sec out of the DVD
drive, which is less than I'd expect.  As soon as I killed the network send
iostat's report zoomed up to roughly 10MB/sec.  So it seemed to me that,
in addition to the 'wrong direction' messages, I was losing some performance
on both the NIC and the DVD drive.

Regards to you both,


Brad


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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:41PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:
Hi Brad,

 Hello Boris, Bart,
 
 On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Borislav Petkov
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:
  
   ... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered correctly?
 
   ok, let's try something else: change the line #if 0 to #if 1 at the
   beginning of kernel/params.c, it looks like:
 
   #if 0
   #define DEBUGP printk
   #else
   #define DEBUGP(fmt, a...)
   #endif
 
   rebuild your kernel, and reboot with it. Then, please send me that boot 
  log to
   see whether the kernel command line is being received from the boot loader 
  and
   what exactly is getting parsed. Thanks.
 
 Boris,  I've done that; the output is in attached file dmesg.debug.out.

it seems that your boot loader is not supplying the kernel with the boot params
properly as can be seen from the excerpt below:

...
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux_2.6.25rc2 ro root=900 
md=0,/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 hda=noprobe
Parsing ARGS: BOOT_IMAGE=linux_2.6.25rc2 ro root=900 md=0,/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 
hda=noprobe
Unknown argument: calling c03670ce
Unknown argument: calling c03670ce
Unknown argument: calling c03670ce
Unknown argument: calling c03670ce
md: Will configure md0 (super-block) from /dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5, below.
Unknown argument: calling c03670ce
...

and, as a result, the probing of hda still takes place.

 It looks to me that the kernel still found the IDE DVD drive (hda) ...
 in addition
 to the system messages when the system was up I found the ide_cd_mod
 module loaded on top of 'cdrom' as normal.
 
   Please see whether you can apply the patch Bart just sent and if that 
  still gets
   mangled and cannot be applied, consider making those changes to ide-cd.c 
  by hand
   - after all, there are only several lines that need to be changed so it 
  won't
   take that long.
 
 Bart, I was able to apply that patch file you attached with no problems, and 
 the
 behaviour of the patched kernel changed as follows:
 
 - no more 'confused' messages, nor the rush of other critical messages
 that accompanied a system hang on one out of four tests yesterday.
 
 - However, a new message that popped up twice; once after a few seconds
 of network activity, and then about 15-20 seconds afterwards:
 
 hda: ide_cd_check_ireason: wrong transfer direction!
 hda: ide_cd_check_ireason: wrong transfer direction!

Bart, can we assume here that some of the nic interrupts somehow get handled by
ide-cd or something gets mixed up there?

 - also, I'm pretty sure that performance of both network and DVD drive 
 suffered.
 
 As to the last ... my new PC, on which I'm doing all this testing, has a 
 gigabit
 Realtek NIC.  It's hooked up via null UTP cable to my older machine which has
 a 100Mb/s card.  ethtool shows that they both auto-negotiate to run at 100Mb/s
 full duplex.  When I run my network test (pumping through /dev/zero across ssh
 from the old machine to the new) the network stats tell me that I'm getting
 10MB/s out of the link, which is what I would expect.
 
 With the patched 2.6.25-rc2 kernel running with no activity reading the DVD
 but the network going flat out (on the old PC's end) I noted that I was only
 getting only 8.0 or 8.1 MB/sec, rather than the 10 MB/sec I've seen in the 
 other
 tests..  There was no other network traffic or cpu load on the machine(s).
 
 Then, when I mounted a DVD disc and did a 'wc /mnt/*' of its contents
 an iostat showed me that I was getting only about 6MB/sec out of the DVD
 drive, which is less than I'd expect.  As soon as I killed the network send
 iostat's report zoomed up to roughly 10MB/sec.  So it seemed to me that,
 in addition to the 'wrong direction' messages, I was losing some performance
 on both the NIC and the DVD drive.


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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-25 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:
 Hi Boris,
 
   Well, this sounds strange. Are you sure you're entering the boot options
   correctly on the kernel command line? Which is your boot loader? I just 
  booted
   my machine with 'hdc=noprobe'  (hdc is my cdrom drive) and here's what i 
  get:
 
   ...
   [0.304774] Probing IDE interface ide0...
   [0.569359] hdb: SAMSUNG SP2014N, ATA DISK drive
   [0.613977] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #1
   [0.773368] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
   [0.874486] hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20, ATA DISK drive
   [0.874506] hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
   [0.874506] hda: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting 
  max speed to UDMA33
   [0.874506] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
   [0.874533] hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
   [0.874620] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
   [0.874744] Probing IDE interface ide1...
 
   so it seems you should check whether your kernel is receiving the 
  'hda=noprobe'
   boot option at all, or something along that path is going wrong...
 
 I'm entering the option 'hda=noprobe' (as one example) right after my boot
 label in LILO.  The dmesg output I attached last time was a boot of straight
 2.6.25-rc2 without any options; I've attached 'dmesg.noprobe.out' which is
 the result of a boot with 'hda=noprobe'.
 
 I must have done something stupid, but I can't see what; if you look at this
 line from the dmesg output:
 
 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux_2.6.25rc2 ro root=900
 md=0,/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 hda=noprobe
 
 ... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered correctly?

ok, let's try something else: change the line #if 0 to #if 1 at the
beginning of kernel/params.c, it looks like:

#if 0
#define DEBUGP printk
#else
#define DEBUGP(fmt, a...)
#endif

rebuild your kernel, and reboot with it. Then, please send me that boot log to
see whether the kernel command line is being received from the boot loader and
what exactly is getting parsed. Thanks.

I tried to apply the patch but failed; I probably did something wrong.
I deleted everything in your message above 'Index: 
  b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c'
and ran 'patch --dry-run -b -p1  ../bart_patch'.  This is part of my 
  script
log:
 
   are you sure you're _really_ using 2.6.25-rc2? Applying the patch against 
  that
   kernel works just fine, no fuzziness or even rejects. Care to try out on a 
  fresh
   kernel source tarball? After all, building a kernel with your quad core 
  cpu won't
   take that long :-) when using make -j8 or something in that order.
 
 Heh.  This is my first new machine in 8 years, and I couldn't wait to start
 using multiple cores.  I was quick to discover the '-j' option ... but I only
 do '-j 4'.  Anyway ... I'd downloaded the full baseline linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2,
 unpacked it, and then ran the patch patch-2.6.25-rc2.bz2 against it.  That
 patch ran perfectly.  And I was in the right directory when I ran Bart's 
 patch,
 as I listed in my earlier e-mail!  All indications were that I was running the
 2.6.25-rc2 kernel as required, I thought.
 
 Well, I see that rc3 is out; maybe I'll give that a shot.

Please see whether you can apply the patch Bart just sent and if that still gets
mangled and cannot be applied, consider making those changes to ide-cd.c by hand
- after all, there are only several lines that need to be changed so it won't
take that long.

Thanks.

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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:38:34PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:

[ Added Bart to CC: ]

Hi Brad,

 Borislav Petkov wrote:
 
   Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
   (ireason = 0x01).
   Trying to recover by ending request.
   Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
   (ireason = 0x01).
   Trying to recover by ending request.
  
   ~ uname -a
   Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon 
   i386 GNU/Linux
 
  Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still 
  using the
  old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went into 
  mainline before
  the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one only when you try out 
  2.6.25-rc1
  or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case you don't want to try hazardous 
  materials
  such as an -rc kernel[*] :).
 
 I have exactly the same problem.  I have a two-month old PC with a
 Gigabyte P35-DS4
 motherboard, which has the Intel P35 chipset with ICH10 south bridge and
 additional JMicron IDE/SATA controller.  I have two SATA-II hard disks
 and a sole
 IDE device, a Pioneer DVR-115D DVD-ROM, hooked up to the JMicron IDE port.
 The motherboard also has an embedded Realtek RTL8111/8168B gigabit
 ethernet controller.
 
 The motherboard/bios assigns both the JMicron IDE controller and the Realtek
 controller to the same interrupt - typically '15'.  There's nothing in
 the bios that
 allows me to move one away from the other.  I can 'reserve' or block IRQs, but
 that only shifts them both to another interrupt.

well the driver probes the bios for that data and assigns the irq line it gets
from it.

 Similarly, no matter what I do with the Linux kernel, using boot parameters 
 such
 as 'acpi=off', 'noapic', 'nolapic' and the like, I can never get the
 kernel to use
 different interrupts for these two controllers.  A 'cat
 /proc/interrupts' always shows
 them sharing their IRQ:
 
   # grep ide /proc/interrupts
   17:   58077   4   98999   129160   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ide0, eth0
 
 With the IDE driver compiled into the kernel any access to the DVD is fine
 until I start using the network.  Upon any network activity I get the 
 'confused'
 messages and more:
 
 kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason =
 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
 last message repeated 3 times
 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
 kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
 
 KDE even kindly pops up a window telling me that someone has inserted a 
 (ghost)
 DVD disc, would I care to play it?  :-(
 
 I know nothing of modern/PCI hardware and their interrupt magic, but it seemed
 to me that the IDE driver was erroneously picking up the interrupts destined 
 for
 the Realtek NIC and thinking they were for it.  Unfortunately there seemed to 
 be
 no way for me to separate the two or get the IDE driver its own IRQ, either 
 via
 the PC's bios or linux kernel boot parameters.
 
 When I saw the recent message from Hans-Peter Jansen about this exact
 problem, and Boris's comment that something in interrupt land for the
 CD driver had been fixed, I thought the latest version of the kernel would
 rectify matters.  I installed the 2.6.25-rc2 kernel from kernel.org
 but the problem
 is still there.

Can you please send me your whole boot log of 2.6.25-rc2? Thanks.

 
 As a workaround I've disabled IDE entirely in my kernel build and am using
 sr_mod to present the DVD as /dev/sr0.
 
 As a result of all this I've got several novice questions relating to
 this matter.
 I don't know if this mailing list is an appropriate place to ask them
 .. my apologies
 if not.  Any quick references to reference material would be appreciated.
 
 Given all the kernel parameters to change IRQ routing and turn ACPI actions
 up, down and sideways, is there any way to tell it to assign an explicit
 IRQ to a device?  Or have it that the IDE driver doesn't share?  I thought
 CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ might have something to do with it, but fiddling
 the value for that had no effect.  It 'feels' to me that all these IRQs seem 
 to
 be highly adjustable by the kernel, so I was hoping there'd be a way to
 let the IDE driver have one to itself.
 
 Is there any way to leave the IDE driver compiled into the kernel but tell
 it to leave the DVD-ROM drive alone, so sr_mod can claim it rather than
 ide-cd?  I couldn't do it with my kernel, but I think Ubuntu (7.10) does
 manage it.  I tried various kernel boot parameters like 'hda=scsi' or
 'hda=ide-scsi' but nothing seemed to work.  It would be nice to be able
 to use IDE hard disks while leaving the DVD-ROM to sr_mod until this
 problem is resolved.

since your cdrom seems to be hda from what i've seen above, try booting with
'hda=noprobe' or maybe 'hda=none' to see which one turns the probing off for
you. See Documentation/ide.txt for details.
 
 Is 

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-24 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:38:34PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:

[...]

  kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason =
  0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
  last message repeated 3 times
  kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
  kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
  kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
  DataRequest }

[...]

  When I saw the recent message from Hans-Peter Jansen about this exact
  problem, and Boris's comment that something in interrupt land for the
  CD driver had been fixed, I thought the latest version of the kernel would
  rectify matters.  I installed the 2.6.25-rc2 kernel from kernel.org
  but the problem
  is still there.

Does the following patch help?

[ It makes ireason handling for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC requests be the same as
  for other request types so ireason == 1 quirk is used if needed. ]

---
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c |   24 ++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
===
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -670,8 +670,8 @@ static void cdrom_buffer_sectors (ide_dr
  * and attempt to recover if there are problems.  Returns  0 if everything's
  * ok; nonzero if the request has been terminated.
  */
-static
-int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *drive, int len, int ireason, int rw)
+static int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq,
+   int len, int ireason, int rw)
 {
/*
 * ireason == 0: the drive wants to receive data from us
@@ -701,6 +701,9 @@ int ide_cd_check_ireason(ide_drive_t *dr
drive-name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
}
 
+   if (rq-cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC)
+   rq-cmd_flags |= REQ_FAILED;
+
cdrom_end_request(drive, 0);
return -1;
 }
@@ -1071,11 +1074,11 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_newpc_intr(
/*
 * check which way to transfer data
 */
-   if (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq)) {
-   if (ide_cd_check_ireason(drive, len, ireason, write))
-   return ide_stopped;
+   if (ide_cd_check_ireason(drive, rq, len, ireason, write))
+   return ide_stopped;
 
-   if (blk_fs_request(rq)  write == 0) {
+   if (blk_fs_request(rq)) {
+   if (write == 0) {
int nskip;
 
if (ide_cd_check_transfer_size(drive, len)) {
@@ -1101,16 +1104,9 @@ static ide_startstop_t cdrom_newpc_intr(
if (ireason == 0) {
write = 1;
xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_output_bytes;
-   } else if (ireason == 2 || (ireason == 1 
-  (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq {
+   } else {
write = 0;
xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_input_bytes;
-   } else {
-   printk(KERN_ERR %s: %s: The drive 
-   appears confused (ireason = 0x%02x). 
-   Trying to recover by ending request.\n,
-   drive-name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
-   goto end_request;
}
 
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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-24 Thread Brad Rosser
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Borislav Petkov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:38:34PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote:
 
  There's nothing in the bios that allows me to move one away from
  the other.  I can 'reserve' or block IRQs, but that only shifts them
  both to another interrupt.

  well the driver probes the bios for that data and assigns the irq line it 
 gets
  from it.

Oh.  I thought from all the 'IRQ routing/balancing' and the like in the
kernel there might be a way to switch things around, give the
Realtek driver a different IRQ than the one being used by the ide driver.
Just my crossed-fingers hope.

  Can you please send me your whole boot log of 2.6.25-rc2? Thanks.

It's attached as file 'dmesg.bug.out'.

  since your cdrom seems to be hda from what i've seen above, try booting with
  'hda=noprobe' or maybe 'hda=none' to see which one turns the probing off for
  you. See Documentation/ide.txt for details.

I tried both options, but in both cases there was no difference; the ide_cd_mod
module was still loaded and the 'confused' message still popped up.

I did four boots/tests of the 2.6.25-rc2 kernel, with and without those
boot parameters ... on all four I had the 'confused' message several times:

hda: cdrom_newpc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01).
Trying to recover by ending request.

but in one - the boot with hda=noprobe - I got pages of these
error messages right after:

hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: DMA disabled
hda: ATAPI reset complete
hda: cdrom_decode_status: status=0xc0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: ide_intr: huh? expected NULL handler on exit
hda: ATAPI reset complete
...

and the system essentially hung.  I don't know if that was due to the
'hda=noprobe' or if that extra sensitivity is seen only every now and then.

Bart wrote:

 Does the following patch help?

 [ It makes ireason handling for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC requests be the same as
 for other request types so ireason == 1 quirk is used if needed. ]

I tried to apply the patch but failed; I probably did something wrong.
I deleted everything in your message above 'Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c'
and ran 'patch --dry-run -b -p1  ../bart_patch'.  This is part of my script
log:

root:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2# pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2
root:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2# cat ../bart_patch
Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
===
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
@@ -670,8 +670,8 @@ static void cdrom_buffer_sectors (ide_dr
 * and attempt to recover if there are problems.  Returns  0 if everything's
...
...
root:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2# patch --dry-run -b -p1  ../bart_patch
patching file drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 670.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 701.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 1074.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 1104.
4 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/ide/ide-cd.c.rej

Since it found drivers/ide/ide-cd.c I guess I got the '-p' level right (?),
and that's about the sum total of my 'patch' experience to date.
Sorry.  Can you tell me what I did wrong?

Cheers,


Brad


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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-24 Thread Brad Rosser
Hi Boris,

  Well, this sounds strange. Are you sure you're entering the boot options
  correctly on the kernel command line? Which is your boot loader? I just 
 booted
  my machine with 'hdc=noprobe'  (hdc is my cdrom drive) and here's what i get:

  ...
  [0.304774] Probing IDE interface ide0...
  [0.569359] hdb: SAMSUNG SP2014N, ATA DISK drive
  [0.613977] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #1
  [0.773368] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
  [0.874486] hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20, ATA DISK drive
  [0.874506] hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
  [0.874506] hda: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max 
 speed to UDMA33
  [0.874506] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
  [0.874533] hdb: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
  [0.874620] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
  [0.874744] Probing IDE interface ide1...

  so it seems you should check whether your kernel is receiving the 
 'hda=noprobe'
  boot option at all, or something along that path is going wrong...

I'm entering the option 'hda=noprobe' (as one example) right after my boot
label in LILO.  The dmesg output I attached last time was a boot of straight
2.6.25-rc2 without any options; I've attached 'dmesg.noprobe.out' which is
the result of a boot with 'hda=noprobe'.

I must have done something stupid, but I can't see what; if you look at this
line from the dmesg output:

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux_2.6.25rc2 ro root=900
md=0,/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5 hda=noprobe

... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered correctly?

   I tried to apply the patch but failed; I probably did something wrong.
   I deleted everything in your message above 'Index: b/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c'
   and ran 'patch --dry-run -b -p1  ../bart_patch'.  This is part of my 
 script
   log:

  are you sure you're _really_ using 2.6.25-rc2? Applying the patch against 
 that
  kernel works just fine, no fuzziness or even rejects. Care to try out on a 
 fresh
  kernel source tarball? After all, building a kernel with your quad core cpu 
 won't
  take that long :-) when using make -j8 or something in that order.

Heh.  This is my first new machine in 8 years, and I couldn't wait to start
using multiple cores.  I was quick to discover the '-j' option ... but I only
do '-j 4'.  Anyway ... I'd downloaded the full baseline linux-2.6.24.tar.bz2,
unpacked it, and then ran the patch patch-2.6.25-rc2.bz2 against it.  That
patch ran perfectly.  And I was in the right directory when I ran Bart's patch,
as I listed in my earlier e-mail!  All indications were that I was running the
2.6.25-rc2 kernel as required, I thought.

Well, I see that rc3 is out; maybe I'll give that a shot.


Brad


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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-15 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:42:58PM +0100, Boris Petkov wrote:
 On 2/14/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
   On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
  
   [Added Bart to CC]
  
Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
  sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.

   
 Hi,

 can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
 ancient - from Sep. 2006.
   
Sure, sorry. Here we go:
   
Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
(ireason = 0x01).
 Trying to recover by ending request.
Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
(ireason = 0x01).
 Trying to recover by ending request.
   
~ uname -a
Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon 
i386 GNU/Linux
  
   Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still 
   using the
   old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went into 
   mainline before
   the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one only when you try out 
   2.6.25-rc1
   or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case you don't want to try hazardous 
   materials
   such as an -rc kernel[*] :).
  
   Bart?
  
   *. As a matter of fact it runs quite smoothly on my machines.
 
  2.6.25-rc1-git1 if you are using IDE.
 
  however it may still have this problem
 
 if (ireason == 0) {
 write = 1;
 xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_output_bytes;
 } else if (ireason == 2 || (ireason == 1 
(blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq {
 
  we problably need to call ide_cd_check_ireason() also for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC
  requests and remove (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq) here
 
 write = 0;
 xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_input_bytes;
 } else {
 printk(KERN_ERR %s: %s: The drive 
 appears confused (ireason = 0x%02x). 
 Trying to recover by ending request.\n,
 drive-name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
 goto end_request;
 }
 
  Bart
 
 Hans-Peter,
 
 i will prepare a patch against 2.6.24 for you to try later.
Hi,

i thought that backporting ide-cd to 2.6.24 would be self-contained but the
problem is that it pulls in changes made in the block layer (ll_rw_blk.c 
splitup)
and if i pull those also in the patch, i can't guarantee the stability of your
system. Besides, this turns pretty fast into a chained pulling which will result
into a subset of 2.6.25-rc1 applied ontop of your 2.6.24.1 kernel so the only
alternative is to wait after 2.6.25 has been released and tackle the problem 
then.

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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

 [Added Bart to CC]

  Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
   On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Hi,
   
I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.
  
 
   Hi,
  
   can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
   ancient - from Sep. 2006.
 
  Sure, sorry. Here we go:
 
  Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused
  (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
  Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused
  (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request.
 
  ~ uname -a
  Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon
  i386 GNU/Linux

 Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still
 using the old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went
 into mainline before the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one
 only when you try out 2.6.25-rc1 or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case
 you don't want to try hazardous materials such as an -rc kernel[*] :).

Hrm, I highly depend on that system being reliable¹, thus I would prefer a 
diff, if feasible at all. That way, any breakage may be embanked to PATA.

OTOH, I'm willing to help to get down to the issue (knowing that this is the 
only way to finally get rid of it).

Thanks,
Pete

¹) As a matter of fact, I suffered from way to many regressions in essential
   subsystems (kernel, X, nss_ldap) lately, not to speak from the usual
   calamities in peripheral areas of such complex beasts.
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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
 
 [Added Bart to CC]
 
  Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
   On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Hi,
   
I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.
  
 
   Hi,
  
   can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
   ancient - from Sep. 2006.
  
  Sure, sorry. Here we go:
  
  Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
  (ireason = 0x01).
   Trying to recover by ending request.
  Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
  (ireason = 0x01). 
   Trying to recover by ending request.
  
  ~ uname -a
  Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon 
  i386 GNU/Linux
 
 Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still using 
 the
 old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went into mainline 
 before
 the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one only when you try out 
 2.6.25-rc1
 or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case you don't want to try hazardous 
 materials
 such as an -rc kernel[*] :).
 
 Bart?
 
 *. As a matter of fact it runs quite smoothly on my machines.

2.6.25-rc1-git1 if you are using IDE.

however it may still have this problem

if (ireason == 0) {
write = 1;
xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_output_bytes;
} else if (ireason == 2 || (ireason == 1 
   (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq {

we problably need to call ide_cd_check_ireason() also for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC
requests and remove (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq) here

write = 0;
xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_input_bytes;
} else {
printk(KERN_ERR %s: %s: The drive 
appears confused (ireason = 0x%02x). 
Trying to recover by ending request.\n,
drive-name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
goto end_request;
}

Bart
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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Boris Petkov
On 2/14/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
  On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
 
  [Added Bart to CC]
 
   Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
 Hi,

 I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
 sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.
   
  
Hi,
   
can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
ancient - from Sep. 2006.
  
   Sure, sorry. Here we go:
  
   Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
   (ireason = 0x01).
Trying to recover by ending request.
   Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
   (ireason = 0x01).
Trying to recover by ending request.
  
   ~ uname -a
   Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon 
   i386 GNU/Linux
 
  Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still 
  using the
  old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went into 
  mainline before
  the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one only when you try out 
  2.6.25-rc1
  or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case you don't want to try hazardous 
  materials
  such as an -rc kernel[*] :).
 
  Bart?
 
  *. As a matter of fact it runs quite smoothly on my machines.

 2.6.25-rc1-git1 if you are using IDE.

 however it may still have this problem

if (ireason == 0) {
write = 1;
xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_output_bytes;
} else if (ireason == 2 || (ireason == 1 
   (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq {

 we problably need to call ide_cd_check_ireason() also for REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC
 requests and remove (blk_fs_request(rq) || blk_pc_request(rq) here

write = 0;
xferfunc = HWIF(drive)-atapi_input_bytes;
} else {
printk(KERN_ERR %s: %s: The drive 
appears confused (ireason = 0x%02x). 
Trying to recover by ending request.\n,
drive-name, __FUNCTION__, ireason);
goto end_request;
}

 Bart

Hans-Peter,

i will prepare a patch against 2.6.24 for you to try later.

Thanks,
Boris.
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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-13 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
  sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.

   
 Hi,

 can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
 ancient - from Sep. 2006.

Sure, sorry. Here we go:

Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason 
= 0x01).
 Trying to recover by ending request.
Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason 
= 0x01). 
 Trying to recover by ending request.

~ uname -a
Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon i386 
GNU/Linux

Thanks for caring,
Pete
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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-13 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

[Added Bart to CC]

 Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov:
  On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
   Hi,
  
   I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn
   sessions) with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.
 
  
  Hi,
 
  can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost
  ancient - from Sep. 2006.
 
 Sure, sorry. Here we go:
 
 Feb 14 00:18:18 kernel: hde: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
 (ireason = 0x01).
  Trying to recover by ending request.
 Feb 14 00:27:27 kernel: hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused 
 (ireason = 0x01). 
  Trying to recover by ending request.
 
 ~ uname -a
 Linux xrated 2.6.24.1-35-pae #1 SMP 2008/02/12 01:00:18 UTC i686 athlon i386 
 GNU/Linux

Actually the interrupt handler in ide-cd got rewritten and you're still using 
the
old one (cdrom_pc_intr vs cdrom_newpc_intr). Those changes went into mainline 
before
the 2.6.25-rc1 so we'll be able to test the new one only when you try out 
2.6.25-rc1
or wait until 2.6.25 is released in case you don't want to try hazardous 
materials
such as an -rc kernel[*] :).

Bart?

*. As a matter of fact it runs quite smoothly on my machines.

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Boris.
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Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
 Hi, 
 
 I suffer from unreliable cdrom operations (failing DAE and burn sessions) 
 with the openSUSE 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp kernel.

Hi,

can please you test this with a more recent kernel. Yours is almost ancient -
from Sep. 2006.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruß,
Boris.
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