Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> [libata] >> And, as the device requires custom high level driver, libata fails >> miserably. Would it be worth to try support these devices? Or are >> they just too outdated to put the effort in? > > > What SCSI peripheral device type does it report, when booted under libata? > > Jeff > > > P.S. As an aside, this reminds to unpack the SATA tape drive I was > handed many moons ago, and test it with libata. > Libata works well with my zip 100 drive since 2.6.18 or even earlier. I just test it again with 2.6.20.3, it looks good on detection (except the "abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE08895DF" warning): ata3.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata3.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata3.01: configured for UDMA/33 scsi3 : pata_pdc2027x ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE08895DF ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE08895DF ata4.00: ATAPI, max PIO2, CDB intr ata4.00: configured for PIO2 scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5238S 4S07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 2:0:1:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A105 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 14.A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Read/write/eject also works without error. Full dmesg attached for your reference. -- albert
Linux version 2.6.20.3 (albertcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)) #1 PREEMPT Wed Mar 14 15:03:36 CST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize end copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000001fef0000 end: 000000001fff0000 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000001fff0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000001fff3000 type: 4 copy_e820_map() start: 000000001fff3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 0000000020000000 type: 3 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000001400000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 511MB LOWMEM available. Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 131056) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 131056 HighMem 131056 -> 131056 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 131056 On node 0 totalpages: 131056 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 991 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 125969 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.2 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 IntelR ) @ 0x000f6e00 ACPI: RSDT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000 ACPI: FADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040 ACPI: MADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff7680 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTELR AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000) Detected 2424.104 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 130033 Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c041e000 soft=c041f000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 513740k/524224k available (2180k kernel code, 9820k reserved, 786k data, 200k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfffdd000 - 0xfffff000 ( 136 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfff0000 ( 511 MB) .init : 0xc03e7000 - 0xc0419000 ( 200 kB) .data : 0xc0321347 - 0xc03e5c10 ( 786 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0321347 (2180 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4851.82 BogoMIPS (lpj=9703655) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 128K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00003080 00004400 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: Core revision 20060707 ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e20) NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfae20, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) * The chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug, * this clock source is slow. If you are sure your timer does not have * this bug, please use "acpi_pm_good" to disable the workaround PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: ec000000-edffffff PREFETCH window: e0000000-e7ffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: a000-cfff MEM window: ee000000-ee0fffff PREFETCH window: 30000000-300fffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 163840 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 1796k freed apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1173886126.644:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (25 C) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac intel_rng: FWH not detected Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:0a: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 TCP cubic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.00ac7 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xF008 irq 15 scsi0 : ata_piix logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 11 ata1.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 390721968 sectors: LBA48 ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : ata_piix scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2000JB-00K 08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda pata_pdc2027x 0000:02:05.0: version 0.74-ac5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 pata_pdc2027x 0000:02:05.0: PLL input clock 16961 kHz ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE08897C0 ctl 0xE0889FDA bmdma 0xE0889000 irq 10 ata4: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE08895C0 ctl 0xE0889DDA bmdma 0xE0889008 irq 10 scsi2 : pata_pdc2027x input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 ata3.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata3.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata3.01: configured for UDMA/33 scsi3 : pata_pdc2027x ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE08895DF ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE08895DF ata4.00: ATAPI, max PIO2, CDB intr ata4.00: configured for PIO2 scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5238S 4S07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 2:0:1:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A105 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 14.A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb sata_sil 0000:02:04.0: version 2.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> Link [LNK0] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ata5: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE0832080 ctl 0xE083208A bmdma 0xE0832000 irq 11 ata6: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08320C0 ctl 0xE08320CA bmdma 0xE0832008 irq 11 scsi4 : sata_sil ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) scsi5 : sata_sil ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks audit(1173886130.848:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 95x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa000, 00:d0:68:01:36:f9, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 10, io mem 0xee100000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9 PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 9, io base 0x0000d800 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 5, io base 0x0000d000 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000d400 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions asus_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister asus_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input3 ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] ibm_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister ibm_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register toshiba_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_unregister toshiba_acpi: Unknown symbol backlight_device_register md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1048568k eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 audit(1173857362.508:3): audit_pid=1780 old=0 by auid=4294967295 Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present sdb: Spinning up disk.....ready SCSI device sdb: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 40 00 00 SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sdb: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 40 00 00 SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: sdb4