Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > >> Currently, there is no mechanism to do that but hard drives usually have >> dip switch to force 1.5Gbps. Please try that. If your harddrive >> doesn't have that, please lemme know. I'll prepare a simple patch. > > unfortunately, the disks have a jumper board, but the jumpers are > missing... could you write a patch for me? Would be much appreciated! Okay, there was a bug in link speed limit logic. That's probably why speed down to 1.5Gbps didn't kick in. The attached patch contains the fix and hack to force 1.5Gbps. Please give it a shot. Thanks. -- tejun
diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c index 7baeaff..f9550f1 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ static int ahci_init_one (struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) static unsigned int ahci_qc_issue(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); static void ahci_irq_clear(struct ata_port *ap); static int ahci_port_start(struct ata_port *ap); +static int ahci_vt8251_port_start(struct ata_port *ap); static void ahci_port_stop(struct ata_port *ap); static void ahci_tf_read(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf); static void ahci_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); @@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ static const struct ata_port_operations ahci_ops = { .port_resume = ahci_port_resume, #endif - .port_start = ahci_port_start, + .port_start = ahci_vt8251_port_start, .port_stop = ahci_port_stop, }; @@ -318,7 +319,7 @@ static const struct ata_port_operations ahci_vt8251_ops = { .port_resume = ahci_port_resume, #endif - .port_start = ahci_port_start, + .port_start = ahci_vt8251_port_start, .port_stop = ahci_port_stop, }; @@ -1558,6 +1559,19 @@ static int ahci_port_start(struct ata_port *ap) return 0; } +static int ahci_vt8251_port_start(struct ata_port *ap) +{ + struct ahci_host_priv *hpriv = ap->host->private_data; + + if (((hpriv->cap >> 20) & 0xf) != 1) { + printk("limiting SATA link speed to 1.5Gbps\n"); + ap->hw_sata_spd_limit = 1; + ap->eh_info.action |= ATA_EH_HARDRESET; + } + + return ahci_port_start(ap); +} + static void ahci_port_stop(struct ata_port *ap) { const char *emsg = NULL; diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 4733f00..57940ba 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -6313,7 +6313,8 @@ int ata_host_register(struct ata_host *host, struct scsi_host_template *sht) /* init sata_spd_limit to the current value */ if (sata_scr_read(ap, SCR_CONTROL, &scontrol) == 0) { int spd = (scontrol >> 4) & 0xf; - ap->hw_sata_spd_limit &= (1 << spd) - 1; + if (spd) + ap->hw_sata_spd_limit &= (1 << spd) - 1; } ap->sata_spd_limit = ap->hw_sata_spd_limit;