Tejun- Sorry for the delay in getting back with you - I wanted to build a clean machine and do some more testing before I replied. I've installed Fedora Core 9 (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686) along with a single SiI 3124-based 4 port controller. As I mentioned in an earlier email, I'm using a JM20330 based SATA to IDE bridge to connect an IDE solid state drive. The SSD and bridge work fine when attached directly to a SATA port, but don't work when attached to a port multipler (SiI 3726-based). (For reference, no problems when using Windows XP) After some experimentation, I found out that if I connected the port multipler first (with no drive attached or a standard SATA drive) and then attached the SSD/bridge drive, the drive was immediately recognized by the kernel. I've attached two dmesg log files: - dmesg_one_drive_at_a_time.txt is when the PMP was attached with a standard SATA drive on port 0 and the SSD/bridge were attached to port 1 later. - dmesg_ssd_drive_only_after_pmp.txt is when the PMP was attached with the SSD/bridge attached to port 0; after EH timeout, the sata cable was detached from port 0 and then re-inserted. I've also run cases where the PMP was attached to the computer empty (no drives on any ports) and then attached the SSD/bridge with success (port independent). Let me know if you need more dmesg logs. Thanks, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Tejun Heo [mailto:htejun@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:41 PM To: Brian & Chamaigne Scamman Subject: Re: Unable to access drives via PortMultiplier and SATA/IDE bridge Brian & Chamaigne Scamman wrote: > If I attach a real SATA drive to port 0 of the PMP, it is recognized > and writeable; however, IDE solid state drives attached via a JM20330 > (to ports 2 and 3) at the same time receive the SCR 2 error. Can you please cc linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when you reply? Can you please post the log from that configuration? So, SATA drive at port 0 and solid drives at port 1 and 2, right? -- tejun
ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xa frozen ata6: irq_stat 0x00b40090, PHY RDY changed ata6: hard resetting link ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) ata6.15: Port Multiplier 1.1, 0x1095:0x3726 r23, 6 ports, feat 0xl/0x9 ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.00: softreset failed (timeout) ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe4) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 2 (Emask=0x4) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 2 (Emask=0x40) ata6.00: COMRESET failed (errno=-5) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 0 (Emask=0x40) ata6.00: reset failed, giving up ata6.15: hard resetting link ata6.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.00: softreset failed (timeout) ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe4) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 2 (Emask=0x4) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 2 (Emask=0x40) ata6.00: COMRESET failed (errno=-5) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 0 (Emask=0x40) ata6.00: reset failed, giving up ata6.15: hard resetting link ata6.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.00: softreset failed (timeout) ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.15: qc timeout (cmd 0xe4) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 2 (Emask=0x4) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 2 (Emask=0x40) ata6.00: COMRESET failed (errno=-5) ata6.00: failed to read SCR 0 (Emask=0x40) ata6.00: reset failed, giving up ata6.00: failed to recover link after 3 tries, disabling ata6: failed to recover PMP, retrying in 5 secs ata6.15: hard resetting link ata6.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl. 0) ata6.01: hard resetting link ata6.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.02: hard resetting link ata6.02: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.03: hard resetting link ata6.03: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.04: hard resetting link ata6.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.05: hard resetting link ata6.05: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 320) ata6: EH complete ata6.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050000 action 0xb ata6: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch } ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.00: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6: EH complete ata6.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050000 action 0xb ata6: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch } ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 320) ata6.00: ATA-6: Super Talent Tech, Rev 2.11, max UDMA/133 ata6.00: 127923200 sectors, multi 1: LBA ata6.00: applying bridge limits ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata6: EH complete scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Super Talent Tec Rev PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 127923200 512-byte hardware sectors (65497 MB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn?t support DPO or FUA sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 127923200 512-byte hardware sectors (65497 MB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn?t support DPO or FUA sdc: sdc1 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xa frozen ata6: irq_stat 0x00b40090, PHY RDY changed ata6: hard resetting link ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) ata6.15: Port Multiplier 1.1, 0x1095:0x3726 r23, 6 ports, feat 0x1/0x9 ata6.00: hard resetting link ata6.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 320) ata6.01: hard resetting link ata6.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.02: hard resetting link ata6.02: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.03: hard resetting link ata6.03: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.04: hard resetting link ata6.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 320) ata6.05: hard resetting link ata6.05: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 320) ata6.00: ATA-7: ST910021AS, 3.04, max UDMA/133 ata6.00: 195371568 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata6: EH complete scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST910021AS 3.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn?t support DPO or FUA sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB) sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn?t support DPO or FUA sdc: unknown partition table sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 ata6.01: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xb ata6: SError: { CommWake DevExch } ata6.01: hard resetting link ata6.01: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 320) ata6.01: ATA-6: Super Talent Tech, Rev 2.11, max UDMA/133 ata6.01: 127923200 sectors, multi 1: LBA ata6.01: applying bridge limits ata6.01: configured for UDMA/100 ata6: EH complete scsi 5:1:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Super Talent Tec Rev PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] 127923200 512-byte hardware sectors (65497 MB) sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn?t support DPO or FUA sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] 127923200 512-byte hardware sectors (65497 MB) sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn?t support DPO or FUA sde: sdel sd 5:1:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk sd 5:1:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0