Re: 3Com NIC

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Rolland
0 sun4u aic7xxx > 19: 1 584788 sun4u ohci_hcd:usb2 > 20: 0 0 sun4u ohci_hcd:usb3 > 21: 1467 sun4u ehci_hcd:usb1 > 22: 0 0 sun4u PSYCHO_PCIERR > 24: 27308743

Re: 3Com NIC

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Rolland
PSYCHO_PCIERR 24: 27308743 0 sun4u eth1 rayleigh:[~] Is this only with eth2 ? It seems to be the only one to have interrupts delivered to CPU0 and CPU2... Just my $0.02 ;) Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SA

Re: Module for simulating network default

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:42:07 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:37:04 +0100 > > > I remember reading some time ago about a network driver to "simulate" > &g

Module for simulating network default

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I remember reading some time ago about a network driver to "simulate" network default, for example packet loss... Unfortunately, I can't find the post, neither in my mailbox nor in archives... Does anyone has an URL that you could send me ? Regards, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Module for simulating network default

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I remember reading some time ago about a network driver to simulate network default, for example packet loss... Unfortunately, I can't find the post, neither in my mailbox nor in archives... Does anyone has an URL that you could send me ? Regards, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Module for simulating network default

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:42:07 -0800 (PST) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:37:04 +0100 I remember reading some time ago about a network driver to simulate network default, for example packet loss... Unfortunately

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:29:55 + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:46 -0800 > "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Fri 2007-12-14 10:02:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > How long will that take to boot on a 386? >

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of outb to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:29:55 + Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:46 -0800 H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: On Fri 2007-12-14 10:02:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote: How long will that take to boot on a 386? Well the dumb

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:28:56 +0100 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11-12-07 15:15, Rene Herman wrote: > > > On 11-12-07 14:32, Paul Rolland wrote: > > > This might be a bit more constant, I suppose. This serialises with cpuid. > Don't see a d

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:16:01 +0100 Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11-12-07 13:08, David Newall wrote: > > > Rene Herman wrote: > (*) some local testing shows it to be almost exactly that for both out and > in on my own PC -- a little over. If anyone cares, see attached

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:16:01 +0100 Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11-12-07 13:08, David Newall wrote: Rene Herman wrote: (*) some local testing shows it to be almost exactly that for both out and in on my own PC -- a little over. If anyone cares, see attached little test

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:28:56 +0100 Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11-12-07 15:15, Rene Herman wrote: On 11-12-07 14:32, Paul Rolland wrote: This might be a bit more constant, I suppose. This serialises with cpuid. Don't see a difference locally, but perhaps you do

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Rolland
the value back ? inb al,0x80 outb 0x80,al I've been wondering since the beginning of this thread if the problem is not just the value we put to port 0x80, not writing to the port... Just my 0.02 Eur... Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SA

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Rolland
wondering since the beginning of this thread if the problem is not just the value we put to port 0x80, not writing to the port... Just my 0.02 Eur... Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77

Re: constant_tsc and TSC unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
Hello, On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:29:49 -0800 "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TSCs on Core 2 Duo are supposed to be in sync unless CPU supports deep idle > states like C2, C3. Can you send the full /proc/cpuinfo and full dmesg. > Sure I can... [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat

Re: constant_tsc and TSC unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
Hello, On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:29:49 -0800 Pallipadi, Venkatesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TSCs on Core 2 Duo are supposed to be in sync unless CPU supports deep idle states like C2, C3. Can you send the full /proc/cpuinfo and full dmesg. Sure I can... [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-10-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:23:15 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/08/07, Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > >> reporting a : > >> irq 23: nobody

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-10-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:23:15 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/08/07, Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is reporting a : irq 23: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) together

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-10-19 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Tejun, On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:23:15 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/08/07, Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > >> reporting a : > >> irq 23

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-10-19 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Tejun, On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:23:15 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/08/07, Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is reporting a : irq 23: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) together

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-28 Thread Paul Rolland
; What chipset ? 965gm ? 975x Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77 Les Collines de l'Arche Fax. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 99 F-92057 Paris La DefenseRI

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-28 Thread Paul Rolland
-- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77 Les Collines de l'Arche Fax. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 99 F-92057 Paris La DefenseRIPE : PR12-RIPE Please no HTML, I'm

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:04:11 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me guess... this is a T61 or X61 ? Bad luck ;) This is an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe motherboard, with a Core2 6400 CPU, a bunch of disk (2 IDE, 3 SATA, 1 CDRW and 1 DVDRW-DL), and a damned Olitec PCI

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Tejun, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:55:22 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 > > David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Paul Rolland "(

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Tejun, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:55:22 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland wrote: Hi David, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 David Newall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland (???) wrote: Hell, IRQ 23 is shared between libata and my modem

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-27 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:04:11 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me guess... this is a T61 or X61 ? Bad luck ;) This is an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe motherboard, with a Core2 6400 CPU, a bunch of disk (2 IDE, 3 SATA, 1 CDRW and 1 DVDRW-DL), and a damned Olitec PCI V92

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi David, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland "(???) wrote: > > Hell, IRQ 23 is shared between libata and my modem !!! > > > > Tried using the modem? When no problem is reported, both the libata

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi David, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 David Newall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland (???) wrote: Hell, IRQ 23 is shared between libata and my modem !!! Tried using the modem? When no problem is reported, both the libata part and the modem are OK. When the problem

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-22 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
=patch+cfg80211+initialisation This is not present in 2.6.23-rc7 ! :((( Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77 Les Collines de l'Arche Fax. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 99 F-92057 P

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-22 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
+initialisation This is not present in 2.6.23-rc7 ! :((( Paul -- Paul RollandE-Mail : rol(at)witbe.net Witbe.net SATel. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 77 Les Collines de l'Arche Fax. +33 (0)1 47 67 77 99 F-92057 Paris La Defense

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Rob, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:21:39 -0400 "Rob Hussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I had this problem as well. It has to do with mac80211, cfg80211 and > the rate cont

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
acktrace. Mine is different but at least, we are at least two > to have the crash. Well, I have it when compiling rtl8187 inside the kernel, but I still have to try it as a module, to confirm we are facing the same bug... Please allow me some time for that, I'll post an update. R

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > getting too much of "No help text available" > > usually results in people no more reading the help text. > > I assert that a Kconf

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
e menuconfig" user, let me say that I agree. Of course, I'm used to rebuild kernel, but sometimes, some options are not clear, and the help text is searched for. But, getting too much of "No help text available" usually results in people no more reading the help text. What about split

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
, and the help text is searched for. But, getting too much of No help text available usually results in people no more reading the help text. What about splitting the screen to have the top half with the menu, and the bottom half with the help ? Paul -- Paul Rolland

Re: sata scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Stefan, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:39 +0200 Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland wrote: getting too much of No help text available usually results in people no more reading the help text. I assert that a Kconfig prompt (a visible Kconfig variable) _without_ help

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
are at least two to have the crash. Well, I have it when compiling rtl8187 inside the kernel, but I still have to try it as a module, to confirm we are facing the same bug... Please allow me some time for that, I'll post an update. Regards, Paul -- Paul Rolland

Re: 2.6.23-rc6 : crash with RTL8187 USB

2007-09-15 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi Rob, On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:21:39 -0400 Rob Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had this problem as well. It has to do with mac80211, cfg80211 and the rate control algorithm not initializing early enough in the boot

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-09-09 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Tejun, On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:23:20 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > > reporting a : > > irq 23: nobody cared (try booting

Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-09-09 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Tejun, On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:23:20 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Rolland wrote: Hello, My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is reporting a : irq 23: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) together with a Call Trace

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:28:09 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:30:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > <6>Linux agpgart interface v0.102 > > > +<6>rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 > > > +<4>rtc_cmos: probe of 00:03

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:28:09 -0400 Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:30:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: 6Linux agpgart interface v0.102 +6rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 +4rtc_cmos: probe of 00:03 failed with error -16

Strange problem with Device Mapper

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I've a machine that has been installed with Intel Soft Raid on top of 2 SATA disks. I'm trying to have this work as a RAID-1 array. Bios configuration has been done, using 128K chunk, and the kernel (2.6.20.7) sees perfectly /dev/mapper/isw__RAID1 But, I'm facing two problems : 1

Strange problem with Device Mapper

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I've a machine that has been installed with Intel Soft Raid on top of 2 SATA disks. I'm trying to have this work as a RAID-1 array. Bios configuration has been done, using 128K chunk, and the kernel (2.6.20.7) sees perfectly /dev/mapper/isw__RAID1 But, I'm facing two problems : 1

RE: Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Rolland
> Might want to 'cat /proc/mounts', and ponder the fact that a > filesystem > can be mounted and not listed in /etc/mtab, and then see if > your system > has 'udev' installed and enabled. Damn ! You're right : cat /proc/mounts | grep dev none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 and no, I don't have any udev

Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I was trying to backup a machine using tar and the --one-file-system option and I was getting an archive without /dev, but tar was spitting : /dev: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped So, I had a look at the code in tar, and the comparison is done on the stat.st_dev field... I

Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, I was trying to backup a machine using tar and the --one-file-system option and I was getting an archive without /dev, but tar was spitting : /dev: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped So, I had a look at the code in tar, and the comparison is done on the stat.st_dev field... I

RE: Why is /dev on a different filesystem ? [Kernel 2.6.20.3]

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Rolland
Might want to 'cat /proc/mounts', and ponder the fact that a filesystem can be mounted and not listed in /etc/mtab, and then see if your system has 'udev' installed and enabled. Damn ! You're right : cat /proc/mounts | grep dev none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 and no, I don't have any udev running,

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-19 Thread Paul Rolland
> Oh... that's just weird. It seems you'll have to continue > boot with the > timeouts for the time being. Sorry about that. Would you agree to a patch to add a kernel boot parameter to skip some ata ports ? I found some archives refering to some "ataX=noprobe", but it seems to have no effect,

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-19 Thread Paul Rolland
Oh... that's just weird. It seems you'll have to continue boot with the timeouts for the time being. Sorry about that. Would you agree to a patch to add a kernel boot parameter to skip some ata ports ? I found some archives refering to some ataX=noprobe, but it seems to have no effect, and

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Doh ! Got that : ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 ahci :00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode ahci :00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq led clo pio slum part ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc208e900 ctl 0x

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi, > This is NCQ protocol violation on the drive's side shown on some early > drives. No need to worry too much about it. The drive will just get > blacklisted for NCQ and should work fine. > Thx. Also, remember one of the problem I have, with ata2 going to timeout because this port of the

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Yeap, more than three HSM violations in ten minutes. That's the > criteria for turning off NCQ. Good to see it working. It look like a > lot because libata reports all active commands (can't help as on HSM > failure, there's no way to determine which caused it) and the SCSI > prints

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Can you put the harddisk under high load and see what happens? How > often do those errors occur? Care to post full dmesg? I started again a stock 2.6.21-rc4, and ran that : while (/bin/true); do tar jxf linux-2.6.19.1.tar.bz2; rm -rf linux-2.6.19.1; echo -n "."; done After

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, Can you put the harddisk under high load and see what happens? How often do those errors occur? Care to post full dmesg? I started again a stock 2.6.21-rc4, and ran that : while (/bin/true); do tar jxf linux-2.6.19.1.tar.bz2; rm -rf linux-2.6.19.1; echo -n .; done After several

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, Yeap, more than three HSM violations in ten minutes. That's the criteria for turning off NCQ. Good to see it working. It look like a lot because libata reports all active commands (can't help as on HSM failure, there's no way to determine which caused it) and the SCSI prints

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi, This is NCQ protocol violation on the drive's side shown on some early drives. No need to worry too much about it. The drive will just get blacklisted for NCQ and should work fine. Thx. Also, remember one of the problem I have, with ata2 going to timeout because this port of the ICH7

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Rolland
Doh ! Got that : ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.2[B] - GSI 23 (level, low) - IRQ 23 ahci :00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode ahci :00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq led clo pio slum part ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc208e900 ctl 0x

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > The kernel says that NCQ is turned off due to excessive > errors. If your > HSM violation is intermittent, it might not trigger tho. I've just grep'ed thru all my messages, and I can't find anything stating that NCQ is being turned off... Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
> If you leave it alone, does libata turn off NCQ and boot continues? boot continues, but I can't tell anything about libata turning of NCQ... I've had a bunch of them at some while while compiling some kernel, so it was quite some time after booting. Is there a message I can check for that

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
, > > + /* NCQ is broken */ > > + { "Maxtor 6L250S0", NULL, > ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ }, > > > > /* Devices with NCQ limits */ > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > NAK - but add the f

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
NONCQ }, /* Devices with NCQ limits */ Signed-off-by: Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With this applied, my machine has stopped all those painful messages. dmesg now says : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Kernels# dmesg | grep LBA ata1.00: 490234752 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) ata2.00

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
to remember this could be NCQ-related, and my disk should have been blacklisted, but is this already in 2.6.21-rc4 ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
> > PS : I'd like to try 2.6.21-rc3, but it seems that this is > breaking my > > config : disk naming is no more the same, and I end up with a panic > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > > though i've been compiling with the same .config I was > using for 2.6.21-rc2 > > Gaah. Can

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
PS : I'd like to try 2.6.21-rc3, but it seems that this is breaking my config : disk naming is no more the same, and I end up with a panic Warning: unable to open an initial console though i've been compiling with the same .config I was using for 2.6.21-rc2 Gaah. Can you get a log

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
to remember this could be NCQ-related, and my disk should have been blacklisted, but is this already in 2.6.21-rc4 ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne suis pas un

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
limits */ Signed-off-by: Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] With this applied, my machine has stopped all those painful messages. dmesg now says : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Kernels# dmesg | grep LBA ata1.00: 490234752 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (not used) ata2.00: 640 sectors, multi 1: LBA ata3.00

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
}, /* Devices with NCQ limits */ Signed-off-by: Paul Rolland [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAK - but add the firmware to the match and you can have an Ack 8) Second try, compiled _and_ boot tested, of course. dmesg says : ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
If you leave it alone, does libata turn off NCQ and boot continues? boot continues, but I can't tell anything about libata turning of NCQ... I've had a bunch of them at some while while compiling some kernel, so it was quite some time after booting. Is there a message I can check for that would

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, The kernel says that NCQ is turned off due to excessive errors. If your HSM violation is intermittent, it might not trigger tho. I've just grep'ed thru all my messages, and I can't find anything stating that NCQ is being turned off... Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send

RE: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for ... 2.6.18.8 kernel

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Vincent, > patched kernel. Now it looks more like 5 seconds faster! > Wow.. nice work CK! > > 2.6.18.8 vanilla kernel: > [ 48.185716] libata version 2.00 loaded. > [ 49.838513] scsi0 : sata_nv > > > 2.6.18.8-rsdl-0.30: > [ 43.144312] libata version 2.00 loaded. > [ 45.820504]

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > That sounds a quite expensive solution ;) > > You should be able to just move the drive attached at ata1 to ata2. > Please report whether that works. I'll try to find an unused disk... As I said, these ports are part of Asus EZRaid solution, and i'd prefer this piece of code not to

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > It involves a long timeout, so it's bothersome. This is caused by > Silicon Image 4726/3726 storage processor (SATA Port Multiplier with > extra features) attached to one of the ICH ports. Yes, I think this is the part Asus is using for it's EZ-Raid feature on this motherboard, and

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Ok, so that's just a message irritation, not actually bothersome > otherwise? It is somewhat painful, because delays involved are quite long, and it is not possible to explain the machine to "ignore" the port, and skip to the next one... > > The second problem is a Jmicron363

RE: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for ... 2.6.18.8 kernel

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Vincent, patched kernel. Now it looks more like 5 seconds faster! Wow.. nice work CK! 2.6.18.8 vanilla kernel: [ 48.185716] libata version 2.00 loaded. [ 49.838513] scsi0 : sata_nv 2.6.18.8-rsdl-0.30: [ 43.144312] libata version 2.00 loaded. [ 45.820504] Vendor:

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, Ok, so that's just a message irritation, not actually bothersome otherwise? It is somewhat painful, because delays involved are quite long, and it is not possible to explain the machine to ignore the port, and skip to the next one... The second problem is a Jmicron363 controler

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, It involves a long timeout, so it's bothersome. This is caused by Silicon Image 4726/3726 storage processor (SATA Port Multiplier with extra features) attached to one of the ICH ports. Yes, I think this is the part Asus is using for it's EZ-Raid feature on this motherboard, and they

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, That sounds a quite expensive solution ;) You should be able to just move the drive attached at ata1 to ata2. Please report whether that works. I'll try to find an unused disk... As I said, these ports are part of Asus EZRaid solution, and i'd prefer this piece of code not to try to

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > Nope... I tried several patches from Tejun, and also some > that Jeff posted > > to linux-ide, but no luck. The only way to have this DVD-RW > working is to > > use irqpoll on the command line... > > So it has *never* worked? That's what I'm trying to see - you had a > "before" and

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Just one point that may be interesting, as it seems that this is IRQ related : at the beginning of the dmesg, it seems that IRQ16 is used for sky2/Yukon , but when reading /proc/interrupts, it has been remapped to IRQ 505... Could this also affect libata ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > It seems like IRQ is not getting through. The first IRQ > driven command is failing for you. H > Extract is : > ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019c00 ctl 0x00019882 bmdma > 0x00019400 irq 16 > ata8: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019800 ctl

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, It seems like IRQ is not getting through. The first IRQ driven command is failing for you. H Extract is : ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019c00 ctl 0x00019882 bmdma 0x00019400 irq 16 ata8: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00019800 ctl

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Just one point that may be interesting, as it seems that this is IRQ related : at the beginning of the dmesg, it seems that IRQ16 is used for sky2/Yukon , but when reading /proc/interrupts, it has been remapped to IRQ 505... Could this also affect libata ? Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, Nope... I tried several patches from Tejun, and also some that Jeff posted to linux-ide, but no luck. The only way to have this DVD-RW working is to use irqpoll on the command line... So it has *never* worked? That's what I'm trying to see - you had a before and after dmesg

RE: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > > Yes, it does, so it's a Good One (tm), > > And points out that $SUBJECT is misleading; the root cause of > the oops isn't rtc_cmos. Workaround, don't enable the legacy > driver for this hardware. Well, sorry for that, but my point was that without enabling CONFIG_DRV_RTC_CMOS and

RE: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, Yes, it does, so it's a Good One (tm), And points out that $SUBJECT is misleading; the root cause of the oops isn't rtc_cmos. Workaround, don't enable the legacy driver for this hardware. Well, sorry for that, but my point was that without enabling CONFIG_DRV_RTC_CMOS and only

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
frozen ata7.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata7: soft resetting port ata7.00: configured for UDMA/44 ata7: EH complete Hope this helps... Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex

RE: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Adrian, > does the patch in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/184 fix your problem? Yes, it does, so it's a Good One (tm), but I don't understand what's going on then... My dmesg says, related to rtc : ... rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 pnp: Device 00:03 does not

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > Your drive has some issues with NCQ and is scheduled to be blacklisted > such that it isn't enabled. libata used to ignore the > condition but now > considers it NCQ protocol violation and fails all pending commands. OK, do you need an hdparm report to fully identify the disk ? >

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, > 1. Has it ever worked with the previous kernels? I can't tell, this machine is new, and it never booted something that was not a 2.6.20 or 2.6.21. > 2. If you connect a harddisk to pata_jmicron, does it work? > > 3. Does applying the attached patch fix your problem? Will do these two

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, 1. Has it ever worked with the previous kernels? I can't tell, this machine is new, and it never booted something that was not a 2.6.20 or 2.6.21. 2. If you connect a harddisk to pata_jmicron, does it work? 3. Does applying the attached patch fix your problem? Will do these two

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, Your drive has some issues with NCQ and is scheduled to be blacklisted such that it isn't enabled. libata used to ignore the condition but now considers it NCQ protocol violation and fails all pending commands. OK, do you need an hdparm report to fully identify the disk ? libata

RE: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Adrian, does the patch in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/184 fix your problem? Yes, it does, so it's a Good One (tm), but I don't understand what's going on then... My dmesg says, related to rtc : ... rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 pnp: Device 00:03 does not

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Rolland
frozen ata7.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 36 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata7: soft resetting port ata7.00: configured for UDMA/44 ata7: EH complete Hope this helps... Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex

2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, My machine is Oopsing at boot time, and ends up in a panic when I have : CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS=y in my .config Here is a transcript of the Oops - no serial console at the moment - I made my best to copy without a mistake ! rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 Unable to

2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos...

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello, My machine is Oopsing at boot time, and ends up in a panic when I have : CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS=y in my .config Here is a transcript of the Oops - no serial console at the moment - I made my best to copy without a mistake ! rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 Unable to

RE: [PATCH] libata: Cable detection fixes

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Rolland
retrying in 5 secs ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata9.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata9.00: disabled scsi9 : pata_jmicron But it seems Alan's patch doesn't touch the jmicron code, so this may explain why it doesn't help... Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS291

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Rolland
e sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA This last part was not present when booting stock 2.6.21-rc1 Any other info you may need, please ask. Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTM

RE: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Rolland
, doesn't support DPO or FUA This last part was not present when booting stock 2.6.21-rc1 Any other info you may need, please ask. Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network administrator and Peering Coordinator -- Please no HTML, I'm not a browser - Pas d'HTML, je ne

RE: [PATCH] libata: Cable detection fixes

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Rolland
in 5 secs ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata9.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) ata9.00: disabled scsi9 : pata_jmicron But it seems Alan's patch doesn't touch the jmicron code, so this may explain why it doesn't help... Regards, Paul Paul Rolland, rol(at)as2917.net ex-AS2917 Network

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