Re: power off disk drives while running

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Hancock
y which spins down but will spin up on any command that's issued afterwards). That's as close as it gets to fully powering off a drive through software. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthanco

Re: power off disk drives while running

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Hancock
command that's issued afterwards). That's as close as it gets to fully powering off a drive through software. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: dual Xeon hyperthread system only showing up as 2 cpus

2007-08-15 Thread Robert Hancock
the entire dmesg. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: dual Xeon hyperthread system only showing up as 2 cpus

2007-08-15 Thread Robert Hancock
the entire dmesg. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: kfree(0) - ok?

2007-08-14 Thread Robert Hancock
the offenders to see if something is coded badly? It's perfectly correct to do it - though, if it's done very frequently in certain cases, it might be more efficient to check for null before the kfree, to avoid the function call overhead into kfree.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: kfree(0) - ok?

2007-08-14 Thread Robert Hancock
the offenders to see if something is coded badly? It's perfectly correct to do it - though, if it's done very frequently in certain cases, it might be more efficient to check for null before the kfree, to avoid the function call overhead into kfree.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: why use memcpy when memmove is there?

2007-08-13 Thread Robert Hancock
urce block) while memove copes with overlapping areas. then why is memcpy present in the sources can't we simply do "#define memcpy memmove" in include/linux/string.h or am I missing something? Because the assumption that the areas don't overlap means memcpy can be more efficient.

Re: why use memcpy when memmove is there?

2007-08-13 Thread Robert Hancock
) while memove copes with overlapping areas. then why is memcpy present in the sources can't we simply do #define memcpy memmove in include/linux/string.h or am I missing something? Because the assumption that the areas don't overlap means memcpy can be more efficient. -- Robert Hancock

Re: troubles with r8169

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Hancock
if the problem still shows up without the nvidia binary module loaded. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: troubles with r8169

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Hancock
if the problem still shows up without the nvidia binary module loaded. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-10 Thread Robert Hancock
ASL code snippet how ACPI actually access the disk and in which parts/functions, pls. Again, it's not believed that this is being done via AML, but via a BIOS SMM trap on the ACPI sleep state hardware IO port. We have no real ability to find out what the BIOS is doing or prevent it in this

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-10 Thread Robert Hancock
access the disk and in which parts/functions, pls. Again, it's not believed that this is being done via AML, but via a BIOS SMM trap on the ACPI sleep state hardware IO port. We have no real ability to find out what the BIOS is doing or prevent it in this case. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: You *do* have to worry about it in any box you turn off daily. Desktop HDs will croak fast in that scenario, laptop HDs less so, but still too fast. A very good laptop HD can last about 20k emergency unloads

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
emotely sane. I do mean snooping the ACPI methods that *return* a taskset to send to the driver, and we send that taskset ourselves in libata and libpata(?). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.robert

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
the landing zone. I don't think arbitrary power-offs make too much difference on those drives. (However, these generally aren't rated to handle as many start/stop cycles, which is why laptop drives generally use load/unload instead.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove

Re: i386: kernel boot fail at check_irq_resend:69

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
lp too. Regards dave That warning should not cause a panic. Is there another message after it? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Michael Sedkowski wrote: Hmmm... If the problem only shows up on nx6325, it might be that ACPI is pulling unnecessary stunt. Please apply the attached patch and report when the disk spins down and up. Disk spins down on "Pre-shu

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Michael Sedkowski wrote: Hmmm... If the problem only shows up on nx6325, it might be that ACPI is pulling unnecessary stunt. Please apply the attached patch and report when the disk spins down and up. Disk spins down on Pre-shutdown

Re: i386: kernel boot fail at check_irq_resend:69

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
That warning should not cause a panic. Is there another message after it? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
the landing zone. I don't think arbitrary power-offs make too much difference on those drives. (However, these generally aren't rated to handle as many start/stop cycles, which is why laptop drives generally use load/unload instead.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
* a taskset to send to the driver, and we send that taskset ourselves in libata and libpata(?). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: You *do* have to worry about it in any box you turn off daily. Desktop HDs will croak fast in that scenario, laptop HDs less so, but still too fast. A very good laptop HD can last about 20k emergency unloads

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
is nothing to flush, and the kernel does its own standby, this could cause an extra spinup/down.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: Few interrupts with NO_HZ

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
boot. What kernel code actually uses the irq0 timer? The kernel likely switched to using the local APIC timer after bootup.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:25 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Anyway. For now I will simply go with what 2.6.23-rc has and what 2.6.21 had: No dma_set_mask anywhere in the 1394 subsystem. We can revisit this whenever an actual need arises. Not sure this is a very

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
RAM for example.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:25 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Anyway. For now I will simply go with what 2.6.23-rc has and what 2.6.21 had: No dma_set_mask anywhere in the 1394 subsystem. We can revisit this whenever an actual need arises. Not sure this is a very

Re: Few interrupts with NO_HZ

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
boot. What kernel code actually uses the irq0 timer? The kernel likely switched to using the local APIC timer after bootup.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Hancock
, and the kernel does its own standby, this could cause an extra spinup/down.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Page Cache question

2007-08-05 Thread Robert Hancock
would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well. All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel modules. -Andi -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberth

Re: Page Cache question

2007-08-05 Thread Robert Hancock
would be fine disabling the Page Cache altogether as well. All user memory is in the page cache. Without it you could only run kernel modules. -Andi -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: spurious NCQ completions from FUJITSU MHW2120BH

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Hancock
that is easily able to detect this.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Hancock
register lower 4GB address range"); goto failed_alloc; } -#else - if (dma_set_mask(hi->host->device.parent, DMA_32BIT_MASK)) { - SBP2_ERR("failed to set 4GB DMA mask"); - goto failed_alloc; -

Re: PROBLEM: many problems with mac80211, iwlwifi and ACPI on Santa Rosa laptop

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Hancock
://picasaweb.google.pl/Michal.Kudla/Gentoo -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: PROBLEM: many problems with mac80211, iwlwifi and ACPI on Santa Rosa laptop

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Hancock
] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14 Aug 4 13:34:49 laptok === And uncatched Exceptions - please look at photos http://picasaweb.google.pl/Michal.Kudla/Gentoo -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Hancock
); goto failed_alloc; } -#else - if (dma_set_mask(hi-host-device.parent, DMA_32BIT_MASK)) { - SBP2_ERR(failed to set 4GB DMA mask); - goto failed_alloc; - } #endif } -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: spurious NCQ completions from FUJITSU MHW2120BH

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Hancock
that is easily able to detect this.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Hancock
ing to use the card: vortex: ac97 codec stuck busy Thanks for any help! That driver will have to be updated to reinitialize the card properly after resume.. Have you reported this to the ALSA people? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PR

[PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Hancock
looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Rebased to apply to 2.6.23-r

[PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Hancock
looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Rebased to apply to 2.6.23-rc1-mm2. --- linux

Re: PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Hancock
to use the card: vortex: ac97 codec stuck busy Thanks for any help! That driver will have to be updated to reinitialize the card properly after resume.. Have you reported this to the ALSA people? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
the compiler warns, but actually allocates a 6-byte long array... Thanks Guennadi -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Cox wrote: I think that PIO transfers only have to be done with interrupts disabled on really old, evil controllers (without unmask set). I don't think libata ever disables interrupts during transfers(?) Currently libata PIO is mostly done in the IRQ path. Albert Lee was doing some work

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
er like old IDE does, either, and it only disables interrupts for the transfer if it's transferring to/from high memory.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
range. I think that PIO transfers only have to be done with interrupts disabled on really old, evil controllers (without unmask set). I don't think libata ever disables interrupts during transfers(?) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
range. I think that PIO transfers only have to be done with interrupts disabled on really old, evil controllers (without unmask set). I don't think libata ever disables interrupts during transfers(?) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
, either, and it only disables interrupts for the transfer if it's transferring to/from high memory.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Cox wrote: I think that PIO transfers only have to be done with interrupts disabled on really old, evil controllers (without unmask set). I don't think libata ever disables interrupts during transfers(?) Currently libata PIO is mostly done in the IRQ path. Albert Lee was doing some work

Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-02 Thread Robert Hancock
... Thanks Guennadi -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-08-01 Thread Robert Hancock
to do this? It's possible that only NVidia really could tell why this error would result from a disk problem, though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-08-01 Thread Robert Hancock
to do this? It's possible that only NVidia really could tell why this error would result from a disk problem, though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: IRQF_DISABLED problem

2007-07-29 Thread Robert Hancock
it's execution. It really is needed. And it's just plain rude to disable interrupts when it isn't absolutely necessary. Does anyone really use those serial controllers with no FIFO anymore? They've never been reliable for remotely high speeds.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To e

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-07-29 Thread Robert Hancock
controller, so it is not surprising that the behavior is different. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-07-29 Thread Robert Hancock
controller, so it is not surprising that the behavior is different. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: IRQF_DISABLED problem

2007-07-29 Thread Robert Hancock
. And it's just plain rude to disable interrupts when it isn't absolutely necessary. Does anyone really use those serial controllers with no FIFO anymore? They've never been reliable for remotely high speeds.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter (was: swap-prefetch)

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Hancock
for all the reads as well. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Hancock
have to answer whether it will be or not.. Certainly if we are already retrying and the drive keeps saying "no seek complete" there's not much the kernel can do about it.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Hancock
have to answer whether it will be or not.. Certainly if we are already retrying and the drive keeps saying no seek complete there's not much the kernel can do about it.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter (was: swap-prefetch)

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Hancock
for all the reads as well. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Hancock
marginally readable and only sometimes causes read errors. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Hancock
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Lee Howard wrote: Okay, so let's say we've got a loop around a blocking read on the modem file descriptor... for (;;) { read some data from modem process data from modem if (end-of-data detected) break; } Are you suggesting that

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Hancock
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Lee Howard wrote: Okay, so let's say we've got a loop around a blocking read on the modem file descriptor... for (;;) { read some data from modem process data from modem if (end-of-data detected) break; } Are you suggesting that

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Hancock
sometimes causes read errors. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-26 Thread Robert Hancock
kernel enough information for it to even be able to control this line properly automatically. That's assuming it actually is a 16550 or similar with a 16-byte FIFO at all, which assuming it's a non-ancient PC it should be, but who knows. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, rem

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-26 Thread Robert Hancock
to control this line properly automatically. That's assuming it actually is a 16550 or similar with a 16-byte FIFO at all, which assuming it's a non-ancient PC it should be, but who knows. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16)

2007-07-25 Thread Robert Hancock
ectors (2469484 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 12 00 00 SCSI device sdc: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdc: unknown partition table sd 0:2:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc 2.6.21.6, stex driver -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Re: very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16)

2007-07-25 Thread Robert Hancock
Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 12 00 00 SCSI device sdc: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdc: unknown partition table sd 0:2:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc 2.6.21.6, stex driver -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL

Re: SCSI vs SATA

2007-07-23 Thread Robert Hancock
it could also be USB, IEEE1394, etc. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: SCSI vs SATA

2007-07-23 Thread Robert Hancock
for vendor ATA is likely safe then, though if it's not you can't assume it's going to be SCSI as it could also be USB, IEEE1394, etc. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: processor family setting for Pentium D

2007-07-22 Thread Robert Hancock
ere that's similar. Likely Pentium D should be added to the menu listing for Pentium 4 though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: processor family setting for Pentium D

2007-07-22 Thread Robert Hancock
similar. Likely Pentium D should be added to the menu listing for Pentium 4 though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: RHEL4 kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Hancock
doesn't match /proc/pid/maps. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? Looks like it's jumping to a null address. Presumably a cron bug. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubs

Re: RHEL4 kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Hancock
doesn't match /proc/pid/maps. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? Looks like it's jumping to a null address. Presumably a cron bug. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hancock
to make it work and nobody looks into why it works consistently in Windows but not in Linux and what we are doing differently.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: sata_nv: 2.6.22 is not fixed, but certainly improved

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hancock
Robert Hancock wrote: Can you post the output you got from the reset on 2.6.22? It's one of these: ata4: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400 next cpb count 0x0 next cpb idx 0x0 ata4: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x9, resp_flags 0x0 ata4: timeout waiting

Re: sata_nv: 2.6.22 is not fixed, but certainly improved

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hancock
Robert Hancock wrote: Can you post the output you got from the reset on 2.6.22? It's one of these: ata4: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400 next cpb count 0x0 next cpb idx 0x0 ata4: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x9, resp_flags 0x0 ata4: timeout waiting

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hancock
to make it work and nobody looks into why it works consistently in Windows but not in Linux and what we are doing differently.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: sata_nv: 2.6.22 is not fixed, but certainly improved

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Hancock
load, I'd already have seen several of them, or with 2.6.20, a constant stream of them. Can you post the output you got from the reset on 2.6.22? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To u

Re: sata_nv: 2.6.22 is not fixed, but certainly improved

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Hancock
load, I'd already have seen several of them, or with 2.6.20, a constant stream of them. Can you post the output you got from the reset on 2.6.22? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH try#2] Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-07-15 Thread Robert Hancock
gt;u.tcb.tbd.buf_addr), --- Normally, it is used to protect some rx/tx status flags or dma buf addr. Any guide line for this leXX_to_cpu usage? It has to be used when accessing any data structure stored in RAM that the device will access and where byte order is significant. cpu_to_

Re: [PATCH try#2] Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-07-15 Thread Robert Hancock
order is significant. cpu_to_le32 when writing to the RAM, le32_to_cpu when reading it. (or le16, etc. if needed). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 5/7] ICH Force HPET: ICH5 quirk to force detect enable

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Hancock
hether there's any reason we should not force enable it there as well? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Andrew Morton wrote: +x86_64-dynticks-disable-hpet_id_legsup-hpets.patch pretend to fix it I'm not sure what this patch does on x86_64, but it seems like it trashes all HPET support on i386? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTE

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Andrew Morton wrote: +x86_64-dynticks-disable-hpet_id_legsup-hpets.patch pretend to fix it I'm not sure what this patch does on x86_64, but it seems like it trashes all HPET support on i386? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [PATCH 5/7] ICH Force HPET: ICH5 quirk to force detect enable

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Hancock
there's any reason we should not force enable it there as well? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Hancock
, as this goes against all kernel convention. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Always zero test in arch/i386/pci/mmconfig-shared.c

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Hancock
: "without"); } So it will always prints "without". I'd make a patch but I'm not sure what this fix is. Just drop the test, the printk or make it say "which might possibly have"? Cheers, Scott -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remo

Re: Always zero test in arch/i386/pci/mmconfig-shared.c

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Hancock
it will always prints without. I'd make a patch but I'm not sure what this fix is. Just drop the test, the printk or make it say which might possibly have? Cheers, Scott -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Hancock
, as this goes against all kernel convention. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IRQ problem with IO-APIC and plx9056-based data capture board

2007-07-12 Thread Robert Hancock
for your device. Likely if you do that your problems will go away. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: [2.6.20.15] CK804 / sata_nv: Reported link speed not as expected.

2007-07-12 Thread Robert Hancock
can safely ignore? I don't think the NVIDIA page is correct. AFAIK all nForce4 chipsets support SATA 3Gbps transfer speeds. The kernel doesn't have any control over the default speed chosen by the controller in any case (though it can force it down to a lower speed). -- Robert Hancock

Re: [2.6.20.15] CK804 / sata_nv: Reported link speed not as expected.

2007-07-12 Thread Robert Hancock
can safely ignore? I don't think the NVIDIA page is correct. AFAIK all nForce4 chipsets support SATA 3Gbps transfer speeds. The kernel doesn't have any control over the default speed chosen by the controller in any case (though it can force it down to a lower speed). -- Robert Hancock

Re: IRQ problem with IO-APIC and plx9056-based data capture board

2007-07-12 Thread Robert Hancock
for your device. Likely if you do that your problems will go away. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: ASUS P5B

2007-07-10 Thread Robert Hancock
otherboard resources instead, as well as a fix to a PCI probing issue that caused problems on some Intel boards with MMCONFIG enabled. You can try an -mm kernel and see if this is resolved. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ASUS P5B

2007-07-10 Thread Robert Hancock
resources instead, as well as a fix to a PCI probing issue that caused problems on some Intel boards with MMCONFIG enabled. You can try an -mm kernel and see if this is resolved. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: SATA exceptions

2007-07-07 Thread Robert Hancock
in the spare sector pool on the drive, which is invisible to software. Your SMART log shows 309 reallocated sectors. That seems somewhat high.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubs

Re: Disabling ADMA? (was Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61)

2007-07-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Kuan Luo wrote: @@ -1714,3 +2761,6 @@ module_init(nv_init); module_exit(nv_exit); module_param_named(adma, adma_enabled, bool, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(adma, "Enable use of ADMA (Default: true)"); +module_param_named(ncq, ncq_enabled, bool, 0444);

Re: Disabling ADMA? (was Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61)

2007-07-07 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Kuan Luo wrote: @@ -1714,3 +2761,6 @@ module_init(nv_init); module_exit(nv_exit); module_param_named(adma, adma_enabled, bool, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(adma, Enable use of ADMA (Default: true)); +module_param_named(ncq, ncq_enabled, bool, 0444);

Re: SATA exceptions

2007-07-07 Thread Robert Hancock
in the spare sector pool on the drive, which is invisible to software. Your SMART log shows 309 reallocated sectors. That seems somewhat high.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

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