Re: ide/dma not working from 2.6.19 to 2.6.21

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Hello.

Bahadir Balban wrote:

I have a PCI Promise TX2 Ultra133 controller with a harddisk on an ARM
platform (which is a barebone system with no BIOS). This setup used to
work with the old linux-ide drivers on 2.6.19

You were very lucky then bacause actually it usually failed on anything non-x86. ;-)

but it does not work
with 2.6.22-rc4, or 2.6.21. Here's the error output:

I guess this might be related to the driver update in 2.6.20-rc1 then -- I made the driver calibrate the chip's PLL, so that it might work for non-x86 case too (where Promise BIOS isn't available to do this). The code is basically the same as in the libata's pata_2027x driver...

PDC20269: chipset revision 2
<6>PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xa0210000
PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xa0210000

   Hm, why all the messages are printed twice? :-O
   (I'll cut out the dupes to save bandwidth).

PDC20269: PLL input clock is 37736 kHz

37.736 MHz is a pretty strange PLL clock... Basically, it's the halved PCI clock, and that value signifies your PCI is probably running at 75 MHz -- which is serious overclocking... :-/ That could explain why the driver managed to work before -- the default DPLL settings fit for 66 MHz PCI but made the UltraDMA fail with CRC errors on the plain 33 MHz PCI, IIRC... I may suggest replacing #undef DEBUG by #define DEBUG in this driver, rebuilding the kernel and posting the driver's output...

<6>PDC20269: 100% native mode on irq 84
<7>PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device 0000:07:01.0
<6>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x90050040-0x90050047, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
<6>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x90050048-0x9005004f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
<7>Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HDS728080PLAT20, ATA DISK drive
<4>Warning: Primary channel requires an 80-pin cable for operation.
<4>hda reduced to Ultra33 mode.
hda reduced to Ultra33 mode.

Oh, now I understand why it used to work for you before 2.6.20 -- UltraDMA only failed with 80-conductor cable on non-x86. :-)
   Have you been using the 40-conductor cable all the time?

ide0 at 0x90050050-0x90050057,0x90050062 on irq 84
<7>Probing IDE interface ide1...
<6>hda: max request size: 512KiB
<4>hda: lost interrupt
<4>hda: lost interrupt
<4>hda: lost interrupt

Hm, that's interesting -- I'm not sure how the driver rewrite could have affected the interrupt delivery for PIO commands (there's no prior "DMA interrupt recovery" messages). Might be some other issue here...

<6>hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1719KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
<4>hda: lost interrupt
<6>hda: cache flushes supported
<6> hda: <4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
<4>hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma timeout error: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

   This is too familiar -- that's how the driver used to behave on

ide: failed opcode was: unknown
<4>hda: lost interrupt

On 2.6.21 I have been using:
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y

On 2.6.19 I have exactly the same but also:

CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y

Could this have caused a problem?

   No.

Does IDE support in linux depend on certain BIOS settings or any other
motherboard specific details? I am asking because neither the new ata
nor the old ide layer worked for the cards I tried on ARM (JMB363,
IT8212, Promise TX2 133 -> worked only with 2.6.19 old ide layer).

   As for the Promise -- it used to before 2.2.20-rc1, and it shouldn't since.

Finally is there a simplest, known-to-work pci ide controller you can
suggest? So that I can start looking from there.

   Your Promise card should actually be working...

Thank you,
Bahadir

MBR, Sergei
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