Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 04:06 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 03:45 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 00:33 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Should hotplug work with Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7
Family) chipset? I am trying kernel 2.6.17.7
Ah.. I should have spotted this earlier. 2.6.17.7 doesn't contain
updated EH and doesn't support any of new features including
hot/warmplug. Please try 2.6.18-rc3.
OK. But I think there are issues with 2.6.18 generally. But I can try it
to see if this makes this better.
If you're uncomfortable with -rcX, you can try libata-tj-stable patch.
It contains most of new stuff.
http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2
Thanks for that. But it had no noticeable difference.
Hmmm... That's weird. 'echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/xxx.../scan'
didn't do the right thing? Care to post dmesg?
I looked in the bios on my system to see if I could set the SATA disks
to AHCI mode. I did not see anything like that. I could select to do a
manual config, in which case I could set things like LBA mode, 32-bit
I/O (which defaults to off). So if hots wap require AHCI mode, I seem to
be screwed. It is a phoenix bios for the supermicro computer.
The chipset might not support ahci mode.
Maybe I can try a different SATA card instead of the stuff on the
motherboard. What do you think is the best one re hots waping? Either
PCI or PCI-X.
I primarily use sil3112/4, sil3124/32 and ahci for development. So
those tend to have better support for EH/hotplug stuff.
I bet the driver does the right thing. The trick is knowing what that is
supposed to be. And how to use the various commands on files in /sys at
the correct time and in the correct order.
Really, it's not that complicated.
Once you know what it is you need to do.
I tried hard to make things just work. If you find things unnecessarily
complicated, please let me know.
I have a system with an IDE disk with the OS that is fixed. I also have
4 hot swappable SATA disk bays. My use will involve changing the SATA
disks to do an analysis of the data they contain. There will be 4 disks
in an analysis set. I need to make it easy for the user to insert and
remove disks. Rebooting each time is a bad alternative. So, if hot swap
does not work, I will have to get warm swap working. I think part of the
confusion I have is how to deal with disks that are mounted. So I need
to get the steps well defined and make those that require user
interaction as few as possible.
As far as libata is concerned, for warmplug, all you need to use are
echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/xxxx/device/delete
for removal, and for plugging
echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/xxxxx/scan
If you remove device before unmounting, the mounted fs will suffer from
io errors and probably spit quite some error messages, so unmounting
before is a good idea.
In general, ata_piix doesn't respond very well to runtime device
addition mainly due to problems with port enable. So, if you boot with
empty slot and put new device in there and issue scan, it might or might
not work, but ports which had a device attached on boot seem to always work.
On any 2.6.17 kernel, without new EH, none of hot/warm plugging works.
Please double check you have the correct kernel. Kernel messages are
very different.
--
tejun
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