Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> My drive is a slave on bus, where master is a modern Seagate ST3160812A. >> >> On my system I see two regressions: >> - One between year 2002 kernels and SuSE Linux 10.0: >> Delay with "packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted" before >> first read access, then the read will succeed. >> I did not yet reproduce this regression just now on my hardware. >> - Second between SuSE 10.1 and 10.2: >> Delay with "packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted" before >> any attempt to access, then it will fail. >> This regression is reproducible just now on my hardware, but still may >> be caused by hardware problems raised by a slightly different >> initialization order. > > It is reproduceable, SuSE 10.1 kernel is "good" and SuSE 10.2 is "bad". > So even if this is caused by some hardware problems or different > initialization order git-bisect on 2.6.16-2.6.20 should tell us what > change caused the problem. > > PS Tejun, I praise efforts to make ATA floppy drives work with libata > but this is IMO a _future_ work (won't help et all for existing > systems/distributions) and we need to have ide-floppy fixed _now_. Yeap, agreed but I think getting more info on the libata HSM violation can help diagnosing ide problem too. Anyways, Stanislav, can you bisect as Bartlomiej requested? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
